Table 4. Inward Leakage (IL) and filter penetration for 10 models of FFRs in this study.
Respirator model | No. of testing | Geometric mean IL (%) | GSD (%) | 95th percentile IL (%) | Mean filter penetration (%) | SD (%) |
A1 | 150 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 16.1 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
A2 | 150 | 7.0 | 2.3 | 27.0 | 0.066 | 0.050 |
B1 | 150 | 7.0 | 2.8 | 38.1 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
B2 | 150 | 7.2 | 2.1 | 24.6 | 0.009 | 0.004 |
C1 | 150 | 12.2 | 2.1 | 39.8 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
C2 | 150 | 11.0 | 2.4 | 44.9 | 1.119 | 0.513 |
C3 | 150 | 14.4 | 1.9 | 41.4 | 0.004 | 0.001 |
C4 | 150 | 17.7 | 2.0 | 53.3 | 0.013 | 0.010 |
D1 | 150 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 6.8 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
D2 | 150 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 8.5 | 0.137 | 0.132 |
Total | 1500 | 6.7 | 3.1 | 42.2 | 0.136 | 0.364 |
Abbreviation: IL, Inward leakage; FFR, Filtering facepiece respirator; GSD, geometric standard deviation, SD, standard deviation.