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04/26/2021 10:00 AM EDT
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Customs officials have seized over 20 million counterfeit masks since the beginning of the year
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Updated 8:12 AM ET, Thu April 8, 2021
Since the start of the year, Customs and Border Protection has seized over 20 million counterfeit masks made to resemble N95 or KN95 respirators. (CNN)Millions of counterfeit masks have been seized by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials since the start of the pandemic. But the last few months have seen an exponential increase in counterfeit mask seizures, a CBP official told CNN.
Since the start of the pandemic, CBP has seized more than 34 million counterfeit masks, most of them modeled to resemble N95 or KN95 masks. Around 20 million of those masks were caught in 2021, said John Leonard, acting executive assistant commissioner of the agency s Office of Trade.
04/22/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) - U.S. Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Norris Cochran has appointed Luis F. Pieretti, PhD, CIH, CSP, WCP® of The MEMIC Group s Loss Control Department to the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He will begin his four-year term on January 1, 2022.
The 15-member board is a federal advisory committee to provide advice on NIOSH s occupational safety and health research and prevention programs. The BSC also provides advice on standards of scientific excellence, current needs in the field of occupational safety and health, and the applicability and dissemination of research findings.
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At a strip mall in College Hill, police officers do weapons checks in the parking lot by a daycare. Rifles and shotguns are locked in police cruisers that are parked next to the cars of people going to the nearby Family Dollar. And officials say there are bullet holes and a crumbling ceiling inside the District 5 police station located in that strip mall. That s why some City Council members are calling for up to $25 million for a new, permanent police station in District 5. This location in the strip mall is not conducive to helping this community at all. It is inadequate in almost every conceivable way, said Council Member Steve Goodin.
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