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Safety and hygiene professionals need products that enhance and improve their respiratory protection programs, while wearers want comfort and performance. 3M offers the best of both worlds with the most complete line of Reusable Respirators.
Reusable Facepiece Respirator are also known as "air-purifying respirators" because they filter or clean chemical gases and possibly particles out of the air as you breathe. This respirator includes a facepiece or mask, and a filter/cartridge (if the filter is in a metal shell it is called a "canister"). Straps secure the facepiece to the head. The cartridge may have a filter to remove particles (such as a biological weapon), charcoal (to remove certain chemicals), both, or other parts. When the user inhales, air is pulled through the filter.