[lloydarmbrust]

In the US the standards for adults are the same as kids... in China they just came out with a new standard but for reasons I wont go into we don't cover it (very China specific).

That said, I have also noticed this... if a manufacturer in China makes a great adult masks, their kids mask is likely to fail standards for filtration AND be harder to breath.

Having made both adult and kids masks I can tell you that there is way less of a demand for kids masks and because of that less attention gets paid to them on the manufacturing floor. Theory: People are just lazy and make worse masks for the kids I think because kids are not paying attention.

Furthermore, kids don't care that it passes standards, they care if there's a dinosaur on the mask or not. Even my own kids tell me my kids masks are boring! So manufacturers put their time on making it fun and not on protection.

We test both kids and adults to the same standards, use the same fabric, etc. Boring but effective :)