Ozone Generators used as "Air Cleaners"

[Melissa2010B]

I'm posting this, not for comment, but as a side issue that was just mentioned in another thread I was in.

Someone mentioned using ozone generators indoors, as an air cleaner and to help eliminate seed moths.

I used to go to a martial arts school that started using one as an "air cleaner". I didn't even know it was there, but started getting sore throats and sinuses and burning skin, where my sweaty skin would rub on my uniform. This went on for awhile, over about a month, then I noticed the unit that had been mounted high up on a wall there. I asked what it was and they said it was an "ozone air cleaner" and that all their schools were now using them. I went home and googled and found a bunch of info about this, once I got past all the ads selling these machines. But I googled terms like: ozone generator health hazards

Ozone Generators that are Sold as Air Cleaners | Indoor Air | US Environmental Protection Agency

Long story short: Ozone is great in the stratosphere but it is a health hazard for living things.

I'm not posting this for general discussion, just to help with awareness.

 

[Mike17]

Ozone is poisonous and attacks the mucous membranes in throat and lungs, hence the sore throats. Having an ozone generator indoors is sheer idiocy. It's bad enough what comes off photocopiers. It would be fatal for birds, I'd imagine.

Ozone is also part of the muck known as "photochemical smog". You're quite right that is great in stratosphere, not in the troposphere where we live & breathe.

 

[Echo]

If you have an Air Purifier, with an ozone option, kept it OFF.