I have what I consider to be a good air purifier from Sharper Image. I don't "smell" any ozone. Recently, a friend gave me a larger (does the entire house) purifier. It has such a strong odor, neither my husband nor I can stand it, both of us ended up coughing from it. We stopped using it after a few uses. I strongly suspect the ozone levels aren't acceptable, but how to find out? Sally Garnet <garnetri...@earthlink.net> wrote: Ozone is toxic to plants and animals, including humans. The toxic dose is higher than most ozone generating air filters. But the problem is that even at low concentrations it can be adsorbed by sheet rock and concentrate there, where it can being to out gas and affect those in the room. Some treatments involve removing plants, animals and people from the rooms, these involve higher concentration of ozone and these are at higher risk of adsorping into the sheet rock.
As well even in very low concentrations ozone can combine with other chemicals and form more toxic compounds. It depends on what is in the air you are breathing with the low concentrations of ozone. The bottom line is that ozone is not a safe substance to play around with if you do not know exactly what is in the air and the concentration of ozone in that air. This information is not widely acknowledged or even known. Most people selling ozone generating machines or services just go by what the manufacturers tell them. They do not have the technical training to check it out for themselves. Nor do they even know it is something that needs to be investigated. Garnet On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:07, Betsy Coffey wrote: > I use a cleaner with tea tree oil that I get from the > health food store and it doesnt bother my allergies at > all. I had a question about ozone. Someone posted that > it is toxic. They use ozone to "clean" the smells > alike tobacco in motel rooms now. Is this toxic? Or, > are you referring to something else? Some doctors are > now also using it. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour > --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.
