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Millions of dollars change hands every year in the ionic air purifier industry. An essential tool to improve indoor air quality, the ionic air purifier inactivates airborne microscopic viral and bacterial organisms, animate and inanimate allergens, gaseous chemicals and possibly radioactive radon.
Unofficial Endorsement
Manufacturers in the ionic air purifier industry pour millions into R&D to prove their claims. Institutes and universities are tasked to conduct multi-faceted studies. Well-known virologists and air quality experts are commissioned to conduct various experiments to verify manufacturers’ claims.
Colin Powell once said “ ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It’s an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.”
As recently as 15 Mar 2009, complacent “myth-busters” were still given prime press coverage (see our post on Ionic Air Purifier & The Bird Flu Myth ).Even now, as the WHO raises the pandemic alert to Phase 5, there are still detractors who are arguing that this is all a great conspiracy by capitalists to profit themselves.
Reviews of ionic air purifiers and other air purifiers on the internet have fallen short of the expectations of users and the demands of manufacturers.
Ionic Air Purifier Reviews – Why Are Expectations of Users Not Met?
Users are not getting the factual data that they need to make well-informed decisions about ionic air purifiers.
Reviewers become too focused on promoting a certain brand of ionic air purifier due to their motivation for financial gain, say when they are affiliates earning a cut for every unit sold from their link.
In the post about the search for an ideal ionic air purifier, 2 very important aspects were highlighted for scrutiny before one parts with hard-earned monies to buy an ionic air purifier.These are:
(1) Efficacy – the ionic air purifier technology has been tested in the laboratory to really work on the basis of some thorough scientific research;
(2) Effectiveness – the ionic air purifier technology has been successfully transplanted from the laboratory into an appliance that will deliver the same results in a user’s setting i.e. home, office, school etc.
Air purifiers, more specifically the right ionic air purifier, will be an essential tool in protecting you from the much feared bird flu pandemic, we say.
Relax, bird flu pandemic is nothing more than an urban legend, says Professor Philip Alcabes, professor of urban public health at the University of New York. In a Washington Post press article on 15 Mar 2009, he debunks as 5 myths the 5 major thoughts motivating health authorities, namely:
(1) Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever
(2) To learn how to prevent a pandemic, look to the past
User safety must be top priority in the selection of an ionic air purifier for use in the home, office, factory or school.
Existing ionic air purifier technology, regardless of whether they originate in North America, Europe, Japan or China produce a primary beneficial reactive agent. These reactive agents may be negative ions, bipolar ions, plasmacluster ions and so on. Their prime objective is to eliminate contaminants in the air we breathe. There is much research on the efficacy of these reactive agents in destroying contaminants. What we do not know is whether these same potent reactive agents also cause harm to fragile human tissues such as those that line our breathing passages from the trachea to the lungs.
Something not commonly noticed and commented upon on this blog happened today, 16 Mar 2009. On the Korean Stock Exchange, two stocks spiked up more than 5% at the opening bell. What do the surging share prices of Seung Chang Airtek Co Ltd and Clean Air & Science Ltd have to do with this blog?
Air purifiers. The two Korean companies sell them by the thousands come springtime. Why spring? Isn’t spring the season of fresh air, flowers and birds?
Strange but true. The global ionic air purifier market is of multimillion dollar magnitude. Yet it is extremely difficult to find a well-organized and properly documented website that sets out objectively the guidelines to help a potential user decide on the ideal ionic air purifier for his or her specific needs.
Logical Selection Criteria
My personal search is turning out to be one that points me in the direction of setting up such a blog. It is a daunting task but I intend to press on along these logical selection criteria:
Ionic air purifiers hold the promise of clean air, purified of all known harmful contaminants that threaten our health. Air is made impure by substances unseen by our naked eye. The weapons against such are very likely to be invisible to our eyes as well. I am drawn to this intuitive logic. Yet, even before an hour of internet research has lapsed, a whole deluge of controversy is thrown up by google. Obviously, I must resist the urge to go by intuition and grab the first ionic air purifier that I lay hands on. The search for an ionic air purifier must focus on its safety aspects as much, if not more, than its effectiveness against contaminants.
In a dramatic press update on 27 August 2008, Sharp Corporation unveiled its latest technological weapon against bird flu! Incorporated in its ionic air purifier, the Plasmacluster Technology (more on this in a later post) has just been scientifically proven to be 99.9% effective in destroying the bird flu virus known as H5N1.
As we have been constantly reminded by the press, bird flu is the prime suspect to cause mankind’s next pandemic. Pandemic sounds terrifying. It is. That’s when a highly contagious virus goes global, in a very negative sense. The worst pandemic on record was the Spanish flu in 1918 which is believed to have killed 50 million people worldwide! That was blamed on the H1N1 virus which was only recently confirmed on 5 October 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a bird flu virus.
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