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Q: How long are gas masks and filters designed to last?

A: All gas mask sold by Civiliangasmask.com are tested and certified in the Neoterik factory near Washington DC. All filters are new. Test results are available for all filters Gas masks have a shelf life of 20 years or longer, and filters have a 10-year shelf life. If you have a mask and filter that was purchased from a swap meet, gun show or surplus store and is not in its original packaging, assume it is useless. This is one chance not worth taking.

Filters (canisters) purchased from CivilainGasMasks.com have a shelf life of up to ten (10) years. Each filter is designed to last from five (5) to eight (8) hours. However, if concentrations of a deadly toxin are extremely high, it is possible that each filter will only last ten (10) minutes. It is highly advisable that when you purchase a mask, you purchase a decent supply of filters as well. We have attempted to make bulk purchases (2 to 6) of additional filters as inexpensive as possible.

REMEMBER... your new mask is useless without specially manufactured filters.

Many gas masks made years ago were made of an inferior grade of rubber and plastic. They were not designed to protect against some of the agents used by terrorists today. Some chemical agents will eat away at the inferior rubber and plastic used in the older, ineffective masks.

Semper Fi

Good Stuff, thanks OM. I'm in the DC area (and a former 5811 in the Corps) but it was so long ago, my NBC training days have long gone. Interesting how the 10 year shelf life to filters plays in there. I would love to find some lmililtary literature that backs that. And the poor grade rubber from older masks, such as , gee, the old M14s???

Anyway, thanks for taking a few moments out of your night to help...