The Indian textiles ministry recently announced a regulatory framework for personal protective equipment (PPE) production after reports of manufacturers selling their rejected products to some private hospitals failing laboratory tests. The new norms require a unique certification code, called UCC-Covid19, and a tamper-proof sticker in indelible ink specifying details of the manufacturer.
An April 6 notification by the ministry said the code would apply to both PPE garments and fabric that pass laboratory tests as stipulated by the South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) and the Defence Research & Development Establishment (DRDE).India's textiles ministry has announced a regulatory framework for personal protective equipment production after reports of manufacturers selling rejected products to private hospitals failing lab tests. The new norms require a unique certification code, called UCC-Covid19, and a tamper-proof sticker in indelible ink specifying details of the manufacturer.#
The code will record the type of garment, its test procedure and also the date of the test. The certification will be valid for a fixed time frame and both SITRA and DRDE will preserve the sample sent by the manufacturer, an English-language daily reported citing the notification.
In case of coveralls, a manufacturer needs to print in indelible ink or in tamper-proof sticker details like the name of the maker, code, test standard, batch number and order details, the notification said.
The directive doesn’t concern masks, as these are certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
The current manufacturing capacity of the Indian industry is 10,000 PPE units per day, but a senior government official said that in about three months, the country is likely to produce 300,000 units.
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