{"id":766,"date":"2021-04-27T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=766"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:23:05","slug":"new-national-standard-for-barrier-face-coverings-approved-by-astm-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2021\/04\/27\/new-national-standard-for-barrier-face-coverings-approved-by-astm-international\/","title":{"rendered":"New National Standard for Barrier Face Coverings Approved by ASTM International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 15, 2021, ASTM International, a voluntary standards-setting organization, approved a new national standard for barrier face coverings that establishes minimum design, performance, labeling and care requirements for disposable and reusable face masks. Manufacturers should take full advantage of this new guidance as it implements a universal standard for the evaluation of barrier face coverings utilized by a majority of Americans every day.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/astm_international_approves_new_national_standard_barrier_face_coverings_0421.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 15, 2021, ASTM International, a voluntary standards-setting organization, approved a new national standard for barrier face coverings that establishes minimum design, performance, labeling and care requirements for disposable and reusable face masks. Manufacturers should take full advantage of this new guidance as it implements a universal standard for the evaluation of barrier face &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2021\/04\/27\/new-national-standard-for-barrier-face-coverings-approved-by-astm-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New National Standard for Barrier Face Coverings Approved by ASTM International&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[953,954,955,958,956,877,876,957],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-law","tag-astm-international","tag-barrier-face-coverings","tag-international-standards","tag-manufacturing","tag-masks","tag-personal-protective-equipment","tag-ppe","tag-universal-standard"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}