In article <3188E054.41C67EA6 at mitre.org>, sdl at mitre.org says...
>>Mr M.L. Deschoolmeester wrote:
>>
>> An nice empirical test of whether your ionizer produces ozone and H2O2
would
>> be to fit is onto a inhalation mask, place the mask over your mouth
and nose,
>> switch the ionizer on and see if you are dead within 24 hours. If you
are,
>> then you have H2O2 and ozone. In which case, you are right and I
apologize.
>>From what I have heard, small animals are much more sensitive to ozone
than
>humans. So a safer test might be to turn on the ionizer close to a
birdcage
>containing canaries or parakeets. If excessive ozone is generated,
these
>birds will react fairly quickly.
>
>We have tested ionizers at the strecno farm in Slovakia. We used 850000
chicken with 500000 as control.
Mortality was reduced by >30% and feed/meat conversion was improved.
Staffan Crona