The state of Minnesota and 3M have partnered to prevent 500,000 counterfeit N95 respirators from being distributed to state health care facilities. According to the Department of Administration, the ...

A company that tried to sell 500,000 N95 respirators to the state of Minnesota at prices far above retail has been told instead to surrender the masks because they are counterfeit. Officials with the ...

Hospitals spent the weekend scrambling to identify and replace counterfeit N95 respirators after learning Friday that fraudulent personal protective equipment (PPE) had been distributed throughout the ...

Federal authorities seized more than 460,000 counterfeit 3M N95 surgical masks in February 2021 in Seattle. U.S. Department of Homeland Security A Dallas medical device distributor is being sued for ...

The Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) and some Washington hospitals discovered their N95 masks were counterfeit after an analysis by 3M, a company that manufactures the masks. "It's a ...

The University of Washington Medicine and Washington State Hospital Association are suing a Texas company for allegedly selling $4 million in counterfeit N95 masks, The Seattle Times reported Feb. 4.

Health Canada is warning Canadians about counterfeit 3M N95 respirators in light of recent seizures of counterfeit products in Canada and at the border. Health Canada is working with 3MCanada, the ...

Healthcare workers in at least 40 hospitals across Washington state may have been using fake N95 masks since December. Mask manufacturer 3M informed the Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) on ...

Tower Health has removed an unspecified number of N95 masks from its shelves after learning it had been sold counterfeit respirators. “On February 3, Tower Health was notified by 3M that we had been a ...

HOUSTON — Two Houston men have been arrested in a multimillion-dollar plot to sell masks they didn't have to a foreign government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Paschal Ngozi ...