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• matt - May 11 2006 | health, ionic air purifier

  As many of my friends know, I've had ion-based air purifiers for over 6 years. I think I agree with the studies, you can smell the ozone sometimes (and Sharper Image now has some shady device that turns ozone into oxygen built into their new purifiers to further lower the ozone output below the health guidelines). Yet, at the same time, I've seen people with asthma swear by them and when I clean the filters, it's absolutely shocking what it's picking up and I vacuum the house every weekend!

  Sumit, my brother (asthma sufferer) just switched to a different purifier by Oreck - you can turn the ionizing feature on/off - he leaves it off - and he says it works much better than his old Sharper Image GP.

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• sumit - May 11 2006 | health

  I was checking out the digg clone called ShoutWire this morning, and came across this interesting article.

  I know a few friends who run ion based purifiers, and I just recommended one to my brother who is having allergies in DC. Apparantly those devices give off Ozone!

  Quoted: "These machines are insidious," said Barbara Riordan, acting chairperson of the California Air Resources Board (ARB), in a warning last year. "Marketed as a strong defense against indoor air pollution, they emit ozone, the same chemical that the ARB and … U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been trying to eliminate from our air for decades. More chilling is that some people susceptible to the ill effects of ozone will eagerly bring these Trojan horses home."