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Ozone is one of nature’s most powerful air cleaning ingredients. Ozone controls chemicals, gasses, foul odors, and excessive microbial contaminants that get into our outdoor air. Nature controls these pollutants perfectly for us by producing ozone with direct sunshine and lightning bolts all over the planet. Of course we do not have direct sunshine and lightning bolts in our homes or work places and therefore are forced to breathe stale indoor air devoid of ozone. We also suffer from a long list of illnesses which are consequential of poor indoor air quality, a leading national health concern.

There are some companies that advertise their air purification products as producing .03 or .04 parts per million of ozone. They claim this to be a safe and acceptable amount of ozone according to government standards and use this as an advertising ploy to sell their products. They tout the benefits of ozone but state that their machines will not produce unsafe levels.

This sounds good on the surface doesn’t it? In actuality this is nothing more than spin language and anyone who understands ozone and indoor air quality can see right through this falsity.

Indeed government standards have determined that ozone levels of .05 parts per million are harmless to humans and animals. However, there are two things that you are not being told.

The first thing which is not honestly explained to you is that the implication of ozone levels of .03 or .04 parts per million being harmless makes people think that no ozone at all would be even better. Nothing could be further from the truth. When people hear this uneducated hype about ozone they become afraid of the most important air cleaning ingredient made by nature. The truth is that no ozone at all is far worse than double the amount of ozone that the government claims to be safe.

For example, following a thunderstorm, the ozone levels can be 3 to 4 times higher than what the government claims to be safe and yet this is the time people go outdoors for a walk to enjoy some of the freshest, cleanest air ever made by nature. It is not harmful, it is good for you. In fact, ozone is the very reason we always go out for fresh air. It would be ludicrous to hear somebody say they are going to go indoors for fresh air where the air is devoid of ozone and rancid.

Furthermore, just try and find even one person in all of history that has died or become sick from natural levels of ozone. You won’t! There are none. Not one person anywhere in the entire world.

Now on the other hand, consider all of the skyrocketing statistics of people becoming allergic, asthmatic or otherwise sickened from exposure to a long list of air pollutants which run rampant indoors in air that has become rancid from lack of ozone. There are multi-millions of people in this group all over the world, and many of these people die on the way to the hospital from breathing disorders.

There are five other causes of bad indoor air but the lack of ozone is one of the most important.

The second thing you are not told is that if an air purification system does not produce ozone levels higher than .03 or .04 parts per million at the machine, there is no way in the world it can produce proper levels of ozone throughout your entire indoor environment to keep your air clean. This amount of ozone is required everywhere in your indoor environment if your air is to be properly cleaned, not just next to the machine.

Simply stated, in order to breathe truly clean air in your indoor environment you would have to tape one of these inferior air purifiers to your nose and walk around with extension cords to power it. Either this or you would have to purchase one of these systems for every room or area in an indoor environment. Sounds silly but this should help you understand the need for proper ozone production and distribution into the air around your home or workplace.

In order to achieve and maintain the proper levels of ozone for effective air cleaning in an indoor environment, you must have an air purifier that is capable of producing levels of ozone which are actually higher than the amount you want throughout your home or workplace. The purifier should have a variable output control so you can adjust the ozone output according to the size, floor plan, and amount of polluting sources and people in that environment.

The air purifier must also have a fan to blow or distribute the ozone outward and into the indoor environment. Any air purifier that claims to have no fan and is therefore silent will never clean your air properly. Using the word silent is once again nothing more than advertising spin language to take a detrimental aspect of a device and attempt to make it sound better to the consuming public. By the way, there are systems available with quiet fans, but with no fan at all your indoor air will never be clean.

Indeed there is much more information available regarding the benefits of replacing essential ozone indoors, and also to clear up some of the misperceptions surrounding ozone. This short article was written simply to explain the inferiority of air purifiers that inappropriately use the word “safe” to describe insufficient levels of ozone and the word “silent” to describe insufficient methods for distribution of the ozone.

If you will be investing into an air purification system, be sure your system has the ability to produce sufficient ozone with a variable output control and a fan.
 

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