FDA approves Battelle’s process to decontaminate N95 face masks but limits it to 10,000 per day

Mar 29 2020 by The Verge

 
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the limited use of a process that would clean much-needed N95 protective face masks and allow them to be reused, the agency said in a release. Columbus-Ohio based Battelle uses a “vapor phase hydrogen peroxide” process to decontaminate the masks being used by healthcare providers and others to protect against the spread of COVID-19. Battelle says its Critical Care Decontamination...

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