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Are EcoQuest Air Purifiers Dangerous?

Posted on 18. Jan, 2007 by Ty Tribble in Network Marketing - MLM

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Inland News:

An estimated 828,000 Californians could be endangering their health by using portable air purifiers that generate lung-irritating ozone, according to a survey released Wednesday.

The survey commissioned by the California Air Resources Board is a first step toward a statewide crackdown ordered by state legislators last year.

"Unfortunately, there are some purifiers that emit enough ozone to be a serious health hazard, especially indoors for the people who have any respiratory problems," said former Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, a Democrat from Agoura Hills who sponsored the legislation.

"It is sort of like having a Stage 2 smog alert going off in your home," she said.

The law required the state to test and certify the safety of portable air purifiers before they can be sold to consumers, Pavley said.

Marketers of ozone generators say that, used properly, the machines remove impurities from the air. But the air board cites various tests that found the devices, in addition to emitting ozone, do not clean the air.

State air-pollution offices have known for more than a decade that some purifiers emit ozone and had sought legislation to let them regulate the machines.

It will take another two years before rules go into effect, said Dimitri Stanich, an air board spokesman. Meantime, the agency also will analyze "ionizing" machines, such as Sharper Image's Ionic Breeze, which emit smaller amounts of ozone as a byproduct, he said.

Jan Baker, of Riverside, bought an EcoQuest air purifier for a construction business about three years ago. Now, to be safe, she uses it only when no one is in the office.

Baker said regulations are needed now. "Hopefully, it's not too late and it hasn't done too much damage to seniors and people who have lung problems," she said.

In recent years, air purifiers have been aggressively marketed in Southern California on talk radio and person-to-person through home businesses.

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