Next Safety's Respirator Outperforms 3M's N95 Respirator

Business Wire, August 13, 2007

JEFFERSON, N.C. -- The U.S Government, in pre-pandemic preparation, has stockpiled over 100 million N95 respirators. However, a study conducted by the CDC, in conjunction with NIOSH and OSHA, has determined that N95 respirators are ineffective in disasters and pandemic events. This study, involving 538 participants in New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina, found that 76% of participants could not correctly fit the mask. In a pandemic situation, these individuals would inhale deadly pathogens.

(Sources: http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/5/700.htm and http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/ avian_pandemic_flu/content/2007/ 2007-04-13respiratorswornimproperly.html)

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Next Safety will begin shipping the world's most advanced respirator for pre-pandemic planning August, 2007. Unlike the N95 respirator, which is passive and highly fit dependent, Next Safety's bPure 8500 series respirators for pandemic events, provides a constant flow of extremely pure air. The constant, positive pressure flow, prevents leak around during inhalation, inhibiting pathogens from entering the lungs.

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