The state market supervision and Administration recently held a regular press conference in the fourth quarter with the theme of "strengthening the quality supervision of masks, ensuring people's health and safety and serving the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control". The reporter learned at the meeting that the quality of non-medical masks has been steadily improved, and the unqualified discovery rate of product quality supervision and random inspection in the production field in 2021 decreased by 24.1 percentage points compared with 2020. Nan Jun, deputy director of the law enforcement inspection bureau of the General Administration of market supervision, said at the meeting that the General Administration of market supervision attaches great importance to the quality supervision of masks, and has carried out special actions to crack down on the illegal manufacture and sale of protective products such as masks in conjunction with seven departments such as the State Food and drug administration, focusing on the production and sale of products that do not meet the safety standards, expired products, and passing non-medical masks off as medical masks Six types of illegal acts such as shoddy goods, bid up prices and price fraud. "The State Food and drug administration has included the supervision of medical masks in its annual key work, vigorously strengthened the quality and safety supervision, and comprehensively carried out the investigation of potential risks." as for the supervision of medical masks, Zhang Qi, deputy director of the device supervision department of the State Food and Drug Administration, said that it will continue to organize flight inspections and urge relevant provincial drug regulatory departments to continue to do a good job in the supervision of medical devices for epidemic prevention and control, Supervise and urge production enterprises to continuously improve product quality and safety management level, and effectively ensure the quality and safety of medical devices for epidemic prevention and control. For the quality supervision of non-medical masks, Liu Min, director of the quality supervision department of the General Administration of market supervision, introduced that the General Administration of market supervision organized special spot checks on the quality of mask products, so as to realize that the production enterprises "should draw as much as possible" and full coverage of spot checks. In particular, strengthen the sampling inspection of mask production and operation enterprises such as newly established and changed production enterprises, so as to achieve "sampling and inspection", "inspection and report" and "report and disposal", and strictly prevent unqualified products from entering the market. Since the outbreak, market supervision departments and drug supervision departments at all levels have carried out 11949 batches of mask quality supervision and random inspection, and recalled 113 non-medical masks, involving 1.637 million pieces. The quality of non-medical masks has been steadily improved. In 2021, the unqualified rate of product quality supervision and random inspection in the production field decreased by 24.1 percentage points compared with 2020. "In addition to paying attention to the quality of masks, it is also important to buy and wear masks scientifically and reasonably," Yu Jun, director of the information and Publicity Department of the State Administration of market supervision and spokesman, reminded consumers, "To buy masks through regular sales channels, you should not only check the appearance and shape of masks, but also the basic information on the packaging, especially the production date and expiration date. In addition, masks with different protection requirements should be selected according to the actual use environment, especially children, the elderly, special people with respiratory diseases and cardiovascular diseases, and the types of masks should be carefully selected 。” (outlook new era)