Now that the NIOSH testing laboratory has been axed, how can you tell if a filter is genuine NIOSH or if it's fake? Sometimes, when you are lucky, there are signs...
This is a chinese-made knockoff of a 3M 2097 P100 filter. The manufacturer has copied the appearance of the original except for the 3M logo. But one significant change has been made, it still says NIOSH on it, but it says **KN95**. That is all kinds of wrong.
There's no such thing as a NIOSH KN95. KN95 is an exclusively Chinese designation within the GB2626 2019 standard. And this is a knockoff of a P100 filter. Even the copy should still perform at P100 levels, not KN95 levels.
This is a chinese-made knockoff of a 3M 2097 P100 filter. The manufacturer has copied the appearance of the original except for the 3M logo. But one significant change has been made, it still says NIOSH on it, but it says **KN95**. That is all kinds of wrong.
There's no such thing as a NIOSH KN95. KN95 is an exclusively Chinese designation within the GB2626 2019 standard. And this is a knockoff of a P100 filter. Even the copy should still perform at P100 levels, not KN95 levels.
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