The date of April 1, the sender the president of the Order of doctors, the recipients are the presidents of the Medical Orders in the regional capitals, and the text this: I inform you that the extraordinary Commissioner for the emergency Covid-19, Domenico Arcuri, you just informed me that the templates that reported the term ffp2 equivalents, sent by the Civil Protection today to the Medical Orders of the regional capitals, are not devices authorized for medical use by the Civil Protection. I therefore ask you to immediately stop the distribution and use of what has been received, while informing any doctors or structures that already had them. It was basically Chinese stuff.
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We know that 20 million masks are cleared through customs every day from China, India, Sri Lanka, that the decree of 17 March authorizes the importation in derogation of the current regulationstherefore, material without CE certification can enter, and that the Customs Agency can block it when the recipient is not clear, but it can no longer perform the compliance analyzes. only the manufacturer’s self-certification is required, and if then that unsafe lot, go for it. Some importers asked the Politecnico di Milano to evaluate the finished product purchased in China. The outcome: most dirty. The Lombard Purchasing Center (Aria spa) thinks about them.
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The same decree invites Italian companies to reconvert production in derogation of current regulations, respecting strict biocompatibility and performance criteria (filtering up to 98%). Many have been busy, starting from the tests on materials, which are performed by accredited bodies, or by the Politecnico di Milano, commissioned by the Region for surgical masks. At the Politecnico 1,700 showed up, 600 prototypes tested: only 10 had security requirements, the rest was cotton with no filtering capacity. Many have abandoned. But in the meantime, those companies that have made investments, obtained the certification of the tests, sent the self-certification to the Higher Institute of Health, are still waiting to know whether the protocol followed is correct or not. Some threw their hearts over the obstacle and started to produce, at their own risk.
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From Sapi of Reggio Emilia, to 7 other companies accompanied by the conversion from the Mirandola Technopole; from Fater who makes diapers and started a production line at the request of the Civil Protection, to Fippi, under pressure from Assolombarda. Fippi was guided by the Polytechnic in choosing the right material, passed laboratory tests, started production of 900,000 surgical masks a day two weeks ago. Today it has 4 million in stock. Well these companies cannot yet market them because the Higher Institute of Health, which by decree must reply within 3 days, has not yet done so. The simplified procedure eventually ended once again in Roman confusion.
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And then, when the emergency is over what will happen? All companies that have invested in a conversion to help the country or because they were in crisis, will they find themselves competing again with those markets that produce at 50 cents what costs 50 here? We must now think about keeping the production of strategic supplies within the country, providing that in public tenders a quota will be reserved for Italian producers. Otherwise we will have learned nothing from this tragedy.
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April 2, 2020 (change April 3, 2020 | 07:14)
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