Personal protective equipment, like masks, is required to be CE certified before it can be sold on the European market — as it should be! Faulty products can kill you. All of these products have to adhere to “Regulation (EU) 2016/425”https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/mechanical-engineering/personal-protective-equipment_en …
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In case you’re wondering “do these fake certificates work,” I present to you: Well-meaning citizens donated 40,000 masks to the city of Vienna, with what seems to be a fake certificate https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20200331_OTS0106/corona-chinesische-community-uebergab-mehr-als-39000-mundschutzmasken-fuer-wiener-einsatz-organisationen … CE 2703 = ICR Polska = Fake https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/nando/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.nb&refe_cd=NANDO%5FINPUT%5F233263 …pic.twitter.com/vNKAej34rh
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And the European Safety Federation has also taken note of these fake certificates: “We have the impression that manufacturers outside the EU (and probably even ‘newcomers’ and importers in the EU) are not entirely familiar with the EU Legislation” https://www.eu-esf.org/covid-19/4513-covid-19-suspicious-certificates-for-ppe …pic.twitter.com/pUgAn2MT70
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The official response of ICR Polska seems to be that manufacturers are aware that these documents do not certify conformity with the regulation. However, that’s clearly not how manufacturers, resellers or buyers are currently interpreting it in practice. https://www.eu-esf.org/covid-19/4513-covid-19-suspicious-certificates-for-ppe …pic.twitter.com/EO3UfoZ4lE
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Also note how ICR Polska has toned down their warning messagepic.twitter.com/dmgYcSj6eV
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So which organisations can you trust for mask certification? 32 in Europe: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/nando/index.cfm?fuseaction=directive.notifiedbody&dir_id=155501&pro_id=155522 … 45 in China: https://www.cnas.org.cn/english/photonews/03/902316.shtml …
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Hey I would love to talk to you about this issue! We ran into the same problems, even found out that gov is also buying and using stuff that is wrongfully certified... I also found out the prices of those certificates... Maybe we can talk!
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Send me a dm!
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Bizarre situatie. En niet zonder gevolgen. Zie bijvoorbeeld deze 40.000 maskers die afgelopen week aan Wenen gedoneerd zijn, met kennelijk een nep certificaat https://www.w24.at/News/2020/3/Ludwig-empfaengt-Schutzmasken-aus-China … CE 2703 = ICR Polska https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/nando/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.nb&refe_cd=NANDO%5FINPUT%5F233263 …pic.twitter.com/dkrsRGIuwr
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Actual regulatory certification
Fake certificates as marketing documents
Both of those look official, come with the same branding, and pass the document validation check.
However, these marketing documents are BULLSHIT.
