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Consider safety first when it comes to air purifiers

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Strange but it is true. It is very, very hard to get well organized, properly documented scientific research about the technologies behind air purifiers, a multimillion dollar global industry! It is strange because if the science is soundly grounded, I would expect an air purifier manufacturer to understand the scientific basis of their brand. I would expect them to expound the effectiveness of their unique technology. Even more, I would expect them to assure users that their technology is perfectly safe, that they kill microbes but are perfectly harmless to the human beings. Unfortunately, my expectations are not met.  True because I have spent unlimited hours looking for scientific technical papers supporting the technologies behind the current air purifiers and bathroom exhaust fan available in the market and still have very little to show for it. Whether deliberate or not, marketers of these products just don’t bother to put up scientific papers on their websites. Where they d...