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The Canadian government says the China-based supplier that sold it approximately one million faulty masks has pledged to send replacements.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…“Faulty”
Toronto recalls faulty face masks as Canada works to secure more supplies
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…“Defective”
Netherlands recalls hundreds of thousands of defective Chinese face masks
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03…“(50 million) Fake or unreliable”
The government has investigated more than 1,000 recent cases of companies making fake or unreliable equipment and seized nearly 50 million face masks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…“Defective” “Flawed”
Faulty masks. Flawed tests. China’s quality control problem in leading global COVID-19 fight
https://www.latimes.com/world-na…“ Sub-standard”
... testing will determine whether they can be used by other sections of the workforce. If they can't, they will be returned to the manufacturer at no cost to Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics…“ uncertified or shoddy”
China imposes more checks on mask exports to ensure quality control
https://www.reuters.com/article/…- Obviously, China isn’t doing this on purpose in order to kill people. But take the blinkers off. They are faulty, not just ‘not up to western standards’Gnash
- And because some morons are spinning it for their own stupid conspiracies doesn’t make it untrueGnash
- but we should blame our own politics...how is it possible with all the known warnings that our medical stuff isn‘t protected?uan
- a machine costs around $800‘000...that‘s nothing for a gov. why do they have to get them now when it‘s clearly to late.uan
- True. There isn’t a country in the world that isn’t rethinking their supply-chain strategies now.Gnash
- Why haven't countries started manufacturing their own masks already? It's not as though this hasn't been going on for months.yuekit
- Apparently, it's easier said than done.yuekit
- For one thing, supply chain is supposed to be a decision that private companies make based on what is best for their business.yuekit
- All these "bring back our jobs" comments seem to assume Western governments have the ability to mandate where companies manufacture and at what cost.yuekit
- Canada has started manufacturing their own maskGnash
- Well, problem solved then!yuekit
- I hope they manufactured more than one :)yuekit
- As uan mentioned in the other comments thread, I think it's mainly an issue with responding to such a huge increase in demand so quickly.yuekit
- In normal times countries would be able to find trusted suppliers. Right now it's a total free for all with everyone bidding against each other.yuekit