New Delhi, June 25 -- The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has urged the government to lift the export ban on N95 masks, PPE-coveralls, and other restricted PPE items saying it is the need of the hour.
Dr A Sakthivel, Chairman, AEPC, said a single mask manufacturing machine can manufacture one lakh pieces per day and we have more than 200 such machines. Therefore, N95 masks should be opened up for exports without any restrictions on quantities.
He suggested that initially the sampling quantity for foreign buyers may be restricted to 10 PPE-coveralls and 50 numbers N95 masks so that it could be tested in the exporting country.
SITRA, textile labs, etc should be upgraded as per the international accreditation standards.
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