A new made-in-Canada high-filtration facemask for health-care workers has been designed and tested thanks to a partnership between Woodbridge Foam Corporation, McMaster University researchers and Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association.
The masks are now certified as Level 3 surgical masks and will soon be certified as safe for filtering pathogens, which will permit them to be designated as N95.
The university is now working to develop internal capacity for testing masks in order to facilitate the rapid development of other materials and products.
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