Should ozone-producing machines marketed as air cleaners be banned?
Comment Absolutely not! I think most of us are intelligent enough to know how to properly use air cleaners and we don’t need another goverment entity telling us what is good for us and what isn’t. It seems to me if the powers that be want to understand better how these purifiers work, they should study them in the home environment and ask questions of the residents pertaining to their health and whether or not the health benefits have improved since using their air purifier. My sister has severe asthma and once during a visit to my home she reacted to the fragrant candles I had in her room. We removed all the candles, potpourri, etc., and turned on one of our ozonators. The type we use reaches a high concentration and are non-corona discharge without the nitrogen by-products. This was done over a period of one and 1/2 hours in an UNOCCUPIED bedroom. Afterward, fans beat the ozone back to OXYGEN in about 1/2 hour. Now think about that…all that was left was oxygen, clean oxygen. My sis