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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a workshop on 29-30 September 2025 to address the needs and lack of solutions available to protect high-risk farmworkers from respiratory diseases.  NASEM recently released the workshop proceedings, a printed report that compiles all of the workshop sessions including speaker presentations and discussions.  Taza Aya was honored to have been featured prominently for its plasma-enabled wearable air curtain, which stood out as the only respiratory protective solution on the horizon to address the needs of workers and persons not covered under a respiratory protection program that would mandate facemask (e.g., N95)

Important report from a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee recommending future frameworks for expanding the availability of respiratory protection (historically, N95 masks but potentially newer approaches such as Taza Aya’s in the future) that go beyond the current limited list of professions to all workers potentially exposed to respiratory hazards (including airborne pathogens) and the public at large, including children.

A mandate for rethinking how we view - and what we demand of - personal