SACRAMENTO – (INT) - Some consumer products and home appliances can emit ozone, a reactive gas, at high levels that may result in potential health effects.

Results of a study by the State Air Resources Board (ARB) were released Thursday.

Seventeen consumer products and home appliances were tested. They included three refrigerator air purifiers, two fruit and vegetable washers, two facial steamers, two shoe sanitizers, two drinking water treatment devices, one laundry water treatment system, two personal air purifiers, two ionic hair devices, and one sanitizing wand. These products were selected because they are advertised as producing ozone.

The ARB urges consumers not use products that emit ozone either intentionally or as a by-product of their functions. There are no consumer product regulations that limit ozone emissions from products similar to those tested by the ARB,

Story Date: July 7, 2016