Advise from a Doctor family member in USA
If you look at air cleaning products, you’ll find a lot of gimmicks: ionizers, plasma generators that claim to amp up the power of filters. “There’s very little science behind them,”
“It’s not only that the devices are ineffective and maybe lull people into a false sense of security, but in some cases they’re actually harmful.”
Watch out, in particular, for machines that can generate ozone. Ozone is a pollutant that can interact with a lot of different products in your home and create harmful chemicals to breathe in. “It reacts with carpets and skin oil and all kinds of things inside of buildings,” “forming all kinds of harmful byproducts, ultra-fine particles, formaldehyde, all kinds of other things that we would worry about indoors.”
So stick with HEPA or MERV-13+ rated filters. Or just open windows.
BIS is India should be telling us this. But instead its asleep. more
“It’s not only that the devices are ineffective and maybe lull people into a false sense of security, but in some cases they’re actually harmful.”
Watch out, in particular, for machines that can generate ozone. Ozone is a pollutant that can interact with a lot of different products in your home and create harmful chemicals to breathe in. “It reacts with carpets and skin oil and all kinds of things inside of buildings,” “forming all kinds of harmful byproducts, ultra-fine particles, formaldehyde, all kinds of other things that we would worry about indoors.”
So stick with HEPA or MERV-13+ rated filters. Or just open windows.
BIS is India should be telling us this. But instead its asleep. more
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Surprised to read this. We are expending to get better environment but getting reverse results. more
Aug 23
Bad air in the house can not be cleaned through vaccume cleaner. It is a fact that pollutant that can interact with a lot of different products in your home and create harmful chemicals to breathe in. more
Aug 22
I fail to understand, how do they get axis to the market. There must be some authorities controlling the market who should take cognizance of such misleading product. more
Aug 20
Please get the entire report in writing so that concerned statutory body in India can be refereed for necessary corrective actions. more
Aug 20
Alcohol and tobacco products are harmful to human body and may cause cancer(Advise from a family member who is Phd in Environmental Science in U.S.A).I smoked for 42 years (stopped since 1995 due very high cost) and drank alcohol for 62 years and continuing( A family member who is a doctor in Mozambique told me it is good to sanitise internally.) I am 77 and still working repairing construction machines at site. I shall bring this post to the manufacturers of Air Purifiers,Ozone generators, and traders. By the way Ms.Kamala Harris is relative? more
Aug 20
