IS 16288 : 2014 : Medical Textiles - Method for Evaluation of the Bacterial Filtration Efficiency of Surgical Face Masks

ICS 11.140; 59.080.01 TXD 36

Reaffirmed 2019

1 SCOPE

This standard prescribes a method for evaluation of the bacterial efficiency of the medical face mask materials, employing the ratio of the upstream bacterial challenge to downstream residual concentration to determine filtration efficiency of medical face mask materials.