Trouble for Gavin Newsom's $1 billion mask deal: Feds reject safety certification
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Gov. Gavin Newsoms assertion that shipments of medical masks the state bought from a Chinese manufacturer had simply been delayed because of federal safety certification issues was thrown into doubt Wednesday when regulators said they had actually rejected the masks.
Many of the N95 particulate-filtering respirators California planned to buy from supplier BYD in a $1 billion deal are now in limbo while the company tries to secure safety certification.
Katie Shahan, a spokeswoman for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said the agency had denied safety certification of the masks based on a number of factors. She said federal rules prohibit the agency from disclosing the specific reasons.
NIOSH tested the received hardware; however, the review of the documentation provided to NIOSH for the design, manufacturing and quality inspection of the device was concerning, Shahan wrote in an email.
Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Trouble-for-Gavin-Newsom-s-1-billion-mask-15268320.php
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,000 posts)2naSalit
(86,572 posts)iluvtennis
(19,851 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)everyone is waiting for guidelines...............
Botany
(70,501 posts)We need one unified 50 state response not a state by state responses with Trump and company
working to deign the needed equipment and resources from blue states. This is madness.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/canada-china-respirators-coronavirus-205461
hughee99
(16,113 posts)As I understand from this thread, the Chinese stuff is fine, it's just Trump screwing with blue states.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)They will be there on Monday.
iluvtennis
(19,851 posts)certified. Me thinks trump admin is arbitrarily denying approval to keep CA from getting the supply of masks.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)and thought they would give it a try. There is going to be a big change in the medical supply chain in this country - would be a good time for US-based manufacturers to gear up.
iluvtennis
(19,851 posts)energy storage division on a couple of projects. We worked with their engineers in Shenzhen and Los ngeles. We had no issues with them. BYD has North American Headquarters in Los Angeles.
So, in this case, I think trump's admin just said the masks didn't meet safety standard so that Jared/the crime family could confiscate the masks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The swamp Trump created cannot be trusted.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Ignore the illegitimate fuckwad in the WH, California.
Ford_Prefect
(7,894 posts)ear loops rather than behind the head elastic straps, which don't permit correct sealing around the face and nose. Could these be the same type?
intrepidity
(7,294 posts)Frankly, that was an issue before this pandemic; not hard to believe that it continues.
What would be truly shocking, though, is if someone in the Trump admin actually *did* something about it!
So, hopefully they just saved us a ton of money. Maybe they did it to punish Newsom, but if the masks were truly defective, I'm glad we found out.
Huge benefit-of-the-doubt here...
tirebiter
(2,536 posts)2 for the price of 1 in Trumpworld. The question is since when did Trump give a fuckp?