Thanks all - chewey, Jenna, Joy!!
Zaeobi - I have declared the stripes may be grey, blue and even a pale red!
JAileen - the weather is False Spring. Hot one day, cold the next. The mask is Chinese - doesn’t follow all the US rules, but performs consistently excellent on the random testing. I really had to weigh the cost/risk. I have a closed circle of people I get within 6 feet of, for more than 15 minutes — 12 people — and/but I need more than 365 masks a year. Grocery bill has tripled, etc. etc. I decided to go with the one Chinese manufacturer as identified by address (not brandname). But I did think about it(!)
ETA: I am in the process, at the bakery, of doing supplier verification and auditing … trying to make it meaningful. I’m signed up for all the FDA alerts and so forth. I am now deep in the weeds of regulation. The whole global identification thing is **blam** - mind exploding.