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Is breathing ozone air from air purifiers good or bad for your health?
Well, that depends on who you're listening to. If you listen to the ozone air purifier salesman, he'll claim that breathing
ozone air from air purifiers is "good" and safe.
However, if you listen to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Consumer Reports, the answer is definitely
"bad!" As far as the experts are concerned, breathing ozone air from air purifiers is harmful to human health. Here's why.
Ozone is an irritant and breathing it in can worsen asthma and cause coughing, wheezing and chest pains. It also deadens
your sense of smell, raises your sensitivity to pollen and mold and may even be responsible for permanent lung damage.
In fact, Consumer Reports, the EPA, Canada and some U.S. states have issued warnings against ozone from air purifiers.
For example, California warns, "People should avoid using indoor air cleaning devices that produce ozone."
Ozone is a highly effective killer that oxidizes whatever it comes into contact with. Sure, ozone kills bacteria and mold,
but it's also the same molecule responsible for the free radicals that can cause heart disease, cancer and premature aging.
Now, I'm not saying that breathing ozone air from air purifiers will kill you, but ozone is definitely not something you
want to voluntarily breathe into your lungs. There's just too much evidence against it. However, ozone generator
marketers say their machines are approved by the government. That's simply not true. Air purifiers fall into a bureaucratic
crack where there are no regulations. According to the EPA, a registration number on the packaging "does NOT imply
EPA endorsement or suggest in any way that the EPA has found the product to be either safe or effective."
Another sales pitch is that you can keep an ozone air purifier on low and only turn it up until you smell a "fresh laundry
odor." But as you breathe it in, you quickly become desensitized to the ozone smell. And keeping the setting on low,
doesn't eliminate the problem, it only makes the air from an ozone air purifier a little less dangerous. How do these
marketers get away with making such outrageous claims? Easy! Since ozone generators have no regulation, salespeople
can say anything and everything they want, in order to sell their product. There's no one to stop them.
Ozone can:
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Make it more difficult to breathe deeply and vigorously.
Cause shortness of breath and pain when taking a deep breath.
Cause coughing and sore or scratchy throat.
Inflame and damage the airways.
Aggravate lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.
Increase the frequency of asthma attacks.
Make the lungs more susceptible to infection.
Continue to damage the lungs even when the symptoms have disappeared.
As you can see, you should be concerned about breathing ozone air from air purifiers. There are other safer
more effective choices available Phenomenal Aire is the only air purifier to pass the new UL-867 Ozone test.
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