Ozone

Ozone Generators that are Sold as Air Cleaners:
An Assessment of Effectiveness and Health Consequences"

Page: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html
Published September, 1997

How is Ozone Harmful?

The same chemical properties that allow high concentrations of ozone to react with organic material outside the body give it the ability to react with similar organic material that makes up the body, and potentially cause harmful health consequences.

When inhaled, ozone can damage the lungs.
http://www.epa.gov/oar/primer
Relatively low amounts can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath, and, throat irritation. Ozone may also worsen chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and compromise the ability of the body to fight respiratory infections. People vary widely in their susceptibility to ozone. Healthy people, as well as those with respiratory difficulty, can experience breathing problems when exposed to ozone. Exercise during exposure to ozone causes a greater amount of ozone to be inhaled, and increases the risk of harmful respiratory effects. Recovery from the harmful effects can occur following short-term exposure to low levels of ozone, but health effects may become more damaging and recovery less certain at higher levels or from longer exposures (US EPA, 1996a, 1996b).

What are ozone and particulate matter? (Link on above)

Ground level ozone is the prime ingredient of smog, the pollution that blankets many urban areas during the summer. When inhaled, even at low levels, ozone can cause respiratory problems and aggravated asthma in children, the elderly, those with respiratory disease, and even otherwise healthy adults who are working or exercising outside on a smoggy day. Children are most at risk from exposure to ozone because they are often active outside in summertime smog. Long-term exposures to ozone may lead to premature aging of the lungs and chronic respiratory illnesses.

(1)	Authority: Dr. Clark Thorp, Ph.D., M.D. Acting Chairman, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Armour Research foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology. "Pure Ozone is non-toxic even in concentrations as great as 20 to 50 parts per million of air." Hill, a physician specializing in industrial hygiene states, "Pure ozone is not poisonous in any sense of the word as it breaks down in contact with the mucous membrane and only oxygen remains."
(2)	Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language Copyright 1989 "ozone: 1. a form of oxygen, O3, having three atoms to the molecule, with a peculiar odor suggesting that of weak chlorine, produced when an electric spark is passed through air or oxygen. It is found in the atmosphere in minute quantities, esp. after a thunderstorm, and is a powerful oxidizing agent: used for bleaching, sterilizing water, etc. 2. clear, fresh, invigorating air: I'm going outside to fill my lungs full of ozone." Invigorating Air "invigorating: to give vigor to; fill with life and energy: to invigorate the body." "vigor: 1. active strength or force. 2. healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality. 3. energetic activity; energy; intensity. 4. force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant."
(3)	WHAT IS COLD PLASMA O3 Activated oxygen manufactured by cold plasma generator plates is a relatively new technology that uses only the O2 molecule and because of "a no heat process" used in the Odatus® it does not produce significantly any other off gasses such as nitric oxide. It is said that because of cold plasma, man has created the most purest O3 ever made out of ambient air. Simply put, cold plasma breaks the O2 molecule into two single O's without using heat and forces the single O's out through a restricted space encouraging their escape through a crowded magnetic field reforming (bonding) them into O3's for a given time. Once made and thrown out into the environment, a little heat like 90 or so degrees the (half life) of the O3 is drastically shortened. In the presence of colder air (60 degrees or less) the half life is prolonged to an hour to an hour and a half. The same as placing any molecules in a refrigerator to decrease its molecular activity, like milk. The "cold" in cold plasma is meant as low electric current proposed to "hot" a high electrical current which of course would cause an arcing. Arcing like a welding rod causes heat thus influencing other gasses to occur from ambient air. A capacitor holds electricity and will severely arc on a discharge. A cold plasma generator works like a capacitor having a regulated electrical leak allowing the high voltage to evenly bleed off constantly making very steady clean O3. Dictionary: plasma; Physics. An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. It is a phase of matter distinct from solids, liquids, and normal gases. Activated oxygen using cold plasma plates is the obvious prescription for "Sick Building Syndrome" and enhancing Indoor Air Quality.
(4)	Educate yourself on the "medical applications of ozone" and of course the politics involved. See: http://www.iaqara.us/mccabe CSA Under fire by John Shannon, CES, IEE of Care Tech Industries, Inc. See: CSA Fraud Forced by Politics? More on the Odatus® See: odatus.org/IAQ Remember, it is your health, your building, your liability, and your responsibility alone. It is also the EPA (directive of the FDA) that is first to condemn your facility. Help EPA by supporting their 1999 Executive Summery Report.