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Is Ozone Safe For My Pets?
Posted 05/16/2016 at 04:17 AMWhen you choose to adopt a pet, you become their "parent". This is a responsibility to be taken seriously. Our fury or feathered friends depend on us to provide them their basic needs for food, water, love, and safe shelter.
The physical benefits of owning a pet, including lowered blood pressure, sense of belonging and companionship, unconditional love, etc. far outweighs the drawbacks - namely a home with a pet scent.
A home which smells like you own a bird, dog or cat is easily rectified with a Rocky Mountain Summit or Summit PLUS Air® purifier. The Photo-Catalytic Filter along with the dual Germicidal Ultra-Violet lamps helps to destroy gaseous pollutants such as odors from urine/ammonia or bowel movements. The most effective purification feature against pet odors is through the use of ozone. Our purifiers meet the EPA safe standard of .05 ppm based on square footage and used according to guidelines.
SO WHAT IS OZONE?
Ozone is produced by adding another atom of oxygen to O2 becoming O3. The additional oxygen atom is destroyed when the ozone attacks odors, bacteria, etc. This reaction commonly occurs in nature when an electrical discharge produced during a lightning storm creates ozone. This is why after a lightning storm, the outside air smells fresh and clean because you are actually detecting is ozone sanitized air. When the ozone is done sanitizing the air, this freshness becomes less noticeable and dissipates.
The same thing happens artificially when you engage the ozone feature. Once the ozone eliminates the odors in your home and get ahead of it, these ozone molecules begin to build in the area being treated and you will detect the smell of ozone. When the ozone begins to get stronger, it is the time to turn the ozone back or turn it off completely. This leads to the question of whether the exposure of ozone is safe for pets.
There have been a number of studies dating back to the 1970's on the effects of ozone exposure in pets. In these studies, cats, dogs, birds, and rabbits were subjected to high doses of ozone up to 3 ppm (parts per million) for several hours upwards of 5-6 hours. The rabbits were unaffected, dogs were relatively resistant to the effects, cats did experience sensitivity around 1 ppm, and birds were most sensitive at lower levels.
Again, our purifiers meet the EPA safe standard of .05 ppm based on sq. footage. These studies referenced exposed animals to ozone levels SIX TIMES HIGHER than our strict guidelines.
BOTTOM LINE...
Don't subject your pet to any level of ozone that you would not subject yourself to.
If you are sanitizing specific room, remove your pet from that area. Allow the pet back into the area once the ozone had dissipated.
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Posted 05/16/2016 at 04:17 AMWhen you choose to adopt a pet, you become their "parent". This is a responsibility to be taken seriously. Our fury or feathered friends depend on us to provide them their basic needs for food, water, love, and safe shelter.The physical benefits of owning a pet, including lowered blood pressure, sense of belonging and companionship, unconditional love, etc. far outweighs the drawbacks - namely a home with a pet scent.
A home which smells like you own a bird, dog or cat is easily rectified with a Rocky Mountain Summit or Summit PLUS Air® purifier. The Photo-Catalytic Filter along with the dual Germicidal Ultra-Violet lamps helps to destroy gaseous pollutants such as odors from urine/ammonia or bowel movements. The most effective purification feature against pet odors is through the use of ozone. Our purifiers meet the EPA safe standard of .05 ppm based on square footage and used according to guidelines.
SO WHAT IS OZONE?
Ozone is produced by adding another atom of oxygen to O2 becoming O3. The additional oxygen atom is destroyed when the ozone attacks odors, bacteria, etc. This reaction commonly occurs in nature when an electrical discharge produced during a lightning storm creates ozone. This is why after a lightning storm, the outside air smells fresh and clean because you are actually detecting is ozone sanitized air. When the ozone is done sanitizing the air, this freshness becomes less noticeable and dissipates.
The same thing happens artificially when you engage the ozone feature. Once the ozone eliminates the odors in your home and get ahead of it, these ozone molecules begin to build in the area being treated and you will detect the smell of ozone. When the ozone begins to get stronger, it is the time to turn the ozone back or turn it off completely. This leads to the question of whether the exposure of ozone is safe for pets.
There have been a number of studies dating back to the 1970's on the effects of ozone exposure in pets. In these studies, cats, dogs, birds, and rabbits were subjected to high doses of ozone up to 3 ppm (parts per million) for several hours upwards of 5-6 hours. The rabbits were unaffected, dogs were relatively resistant to the effects, cats did experience sensitivity around 1 ppm, and birds were most sensitive at lower levels.
Again, our purifiers meet the EPA safe standard of .05 ppm based on sq. footage. These studies referenced exposed animals to ozone levels SIX TIMES HIGHER than our strict guidelines.
BOTTOM LINE...
Don't subject your pet to any level of ozone that you would not subject yourself to.
If you are sanitizing specific room, remove your pet from that area. Allow the pet back into the area once the ozone had dissipated.
If you want to sanitize the house, take your pet outside, out for a drive or on errands, go out for a walk.
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