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NIOSH Conformity Assessment Letter to Manufacturers, CA 2022-1040 - Effective Immediately – Prioritization of applications submitted by existing domestic approval holders and new domestic applicants for new approvals or extensions-of-approval for particulate filtering respirators, including Surgical N95 respirators. This prioritization does not include private-label requests. This notice and NIOSH CA 2022-1041 supersede NIOSH CA 2021-1032

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  • 02/25/2022



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    NIOSH CA 2021-1032, a Conformity Assessment Letter to Manufacturers (Letter) published in February 2021, offered prioritization guidance to address the overwhelming number of new applications submitted to the NIOSH Respirator Approval Program (Program) throughout 2020 and early 2021. In that Letter, the Program continued to prioritize applications seeking or modifying approval for half and full facepiece particulate filtering air-purifying respirators (APRs), including filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs), and powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) produced in the United States. The prioritization included domestic Surgical N95 FFRs (SN95s) applications described in NIOSH CA 2018-1010R1. The February 2021 letter also included a new policy prohibiting fraud and fraudulent statements in the application process.
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