Myth: If it says NIOSH-Approved on the box, I can trust this respirator. There's no other way to easily verify.

Fact:  The NIOSH Trusted-Source webpage was developed to dispel user confusion due to misinformation and lack of information on performance, selection, acquisition and use of various types of filtering facepiece respirators.

Objectives:

- Responsive to identified need of healthcare workers due to 2009 H1N1

- Provides basic information for respirator selection and use

- Consists of repackaged existing respirator information

- Generic information presentation format

- Provides single-source resource for respirator information from informing novice to experienced users

- Addresses availability of product  for hazard-specific needs

Respirator Trusted-Source Information Page

(http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/RespSource.html)