B.C. company Inno Lifecare wins Health Canada certification for domestically produced N95 masks

It produced a million of them in the first week

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      A Coquitlam based food producer has pivoted from making snacks to N95 surgical respirators.

      Inno Lifecare, a division of Inno Foods, announced today that its masks have been approved for sale in Canada by Health Canada.

      According to CEO and founder Jae Park, 95 percent of the components for the masks are manufactured in Canada.

      In the first week, it produced a million masks, Inno Lifecare stated in a news release.

      "We have a talented engineering team, and because we are vertically integrated, we can nimbly meet changing demand," Park said.

      The company has a machine-learning arm that relies on artificial intelligence. Inno Lifecare stated that this is what made the move into N95 respirator production possible.

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