What's New on the NPPTL Website

The following is a listing of items posted to the NPPTL Web site in 2020. Postings prior to 2020 can be found in the NPPTL What’s New Archives.
October 2, 2020

• PPE CASE P2020-0113 – Filtration Efficiency Performance of Non-NIOSH-Approved International Respiratory Protective Devices: Phase Two

August 24, 2020

• Respiratory Protection Week 2020, September 8-11, 2020, Supporting those who Support Us All

August 21, 2020

• CA-2020-1031 – Effective Immediately – In response to COVID-19 – UPDATED NIOSH prioritization for accepting and examining particulate filtering respirator approval applications, including Surgical N95 respirators, submitted by existing approval holders, new domestic manufacturers/applicants, and new international manufacturers/applicants. Supersedes NIOSH CA 2020-1027

August 18, 2020

• PPE CASE P2020-0112 – Filtration Efficiency Performance of Non-NIOSH-Approved International Respiratory Protective Devices: Phase One

August 17, 2020

• CA-2018-1010R1.0 – Interim guidance regarding applications for NIOSH Approval of Filtering Facepiece Respirators in accordance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Final Order published May 17, 2018, and FDA/NIOSH MOU 225-18-006, dated November 2017 (included as a reference in this notice). Revision Supersedes the November 2018 version

June 25, 2020

• CA-2020-1030 – Requirements and Responsibilities of Approval Holders and Assignees in NIOSH Approved Respirator Private Labeling and Private Packaging Arrangements

June 8, 2020

• CA-2020-1029 – Clarification about U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) Applicable to Existing NIOSH Respirator Approval Holders

May 18, 2020

• CA-2020-1028 – Information regarding damaged or degraded head straps on previously stockpiled NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators

April 24, 2020

• CA-2020-1027 – Effective Immediately – In response to COVID-19 – NIOSH is accepting and prioritizing particulate filtering respirator approval applications submitted by existing approval holders and new domestic manufacturers/applicants. Supersedes NIOSH CA 2020-1024

April 20, 2020

• CA-2020-1026 – Information regarding Shanghai Dasheng Health Products Manufacture Co., Ltd. (SDH) filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) with ear loops and labeled as NIOSH-approved

April 10, 2020

• Interim Final Rule on Approval Tests and Standards for Air-Purifying Particulate Respirators

April 4, 2020

• NPPTL Respirator Assessments to Support the COVID-19 Response

March 27, 2020

• CA-2020-1025 – Effective immediately – NIOSH Approval Letters, Denial Letters, and Final Fee Invoices will be signed electronically

March 25, 2020

• PPE CASE Report – Inhalation and Exhalation Resistance and Filtration Performance of Stockpiled Air-Purifying Respirators: Overall Performance of Nearly 4,000 Respirators Sampled from Ten Stockpile Facilities pdf icon[PDF – 4 MB]

March 13, 2020

• PPE CASE – 23616 – Worcester Fire Department, Massachusettspdf icon

March 3, 2020

• PPE CASE Reports (10) – Performance of Stockpiled Air-Purifying Respirators, Inhalation and Exhalation Resistance and Filtration Efficiency Performance from 10 U.S. stockpile facilities

February 28, 2020

• CA-2020-1024 – Effective immediately – NIOSH is prioritizing Respirator Approval Applications in response to COVID-19