Saturday, January 23, 2010

A Summary of the ActivePure Technology Test Results from Kansas State University


1.0 INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this article is to summarize some research work that has been performed by the Department of Animal Science & Industry at Kansas State University in order to test out and determine how effective ActivePure Technology has been in killing various types of viruses, bacteria and fungi.


The intent behind this blog posting is to summarize this work in such a way (in as a jargon-free manner as possible) that a lay (or non-scientific person) can understand the test results and get some idea how the testing was performed.

I have also included a link to the actual research reports in this article for your own review.

However, the lay reader might find these reports difficult to understand.

The Research Report (from KSU) actually consists of three (3) reports. Each of these reports are briefly listed below.


1. Biological Reduction on Surfaces through Photocatalysis and Ozone with ActivePure (RCI) Technology.

2. Efficacy of Ecoquest Radiant Catalytic Ionization (ActivePure) Cell and Breeze AT Ozone Generators at Reducing Microbial Populations on Stainless Steel Surfaces

3. Effects of ActivePure (RCI) Technology on Reducing Avian Influenza A (H5N8) on Surfaces in 12-hour testing


Try saying all of that three (3) times fast!!!


ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
The Testing (documented in these reports) has been performed at the Kansas State Food Science Institute in the Department of Animal Science & Industry, Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS under the direction of Dr. James Marsden, Regent's Distinguished Professor of Meat Science.

KSU is America's foremost Universities for animal science and Dr. James Marsden is known around the world as one of the top researchers and experts in food safety.

The contents of each of these three reports is summarized below.



2.0 REPORT # 1: BIOLOGICAL REDUCTION ON SURFACES THROUGH PHOTOCATALYSIS AND OZONE WITH ACTIVEPURE RCI TECHNOLOGY
Ten of the most deadly forms of mold, fungi, bacteria and virus were subjected to a new technology called "ActivePure".

These ten (10) organisms were placed on a piece of stainless steel inside a test chamber and the ActivePure Cell was turned on for 24 hours.

The Test Results showed that the ActivePure Technology reduced the amount of these organisms by an amount ranging between 96.4% to 100%

The Ten (10) Organisms that were Tested

Staph (Staphylococcus Aureus)

MRSA (Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)

E-Coli (Escherichia Coli)

Anthrax Family (Bacillus spp.)

Strep (Streptococcus spp.)

Pseudomonas aureuginos

Listeria monocytogenes

Candida Albicans

Black Mold (Stachybotrys Chartarum)

Avian Influenze H5N8


NOTE: Because some of these organisms die off on their own, when exposed to air, any reputable study MUST ACCOUNT for these natural reductions.

The test results presented in this report are the reductions in the amount (or numbers) of these organisms OVER AND ABOVE the "Natural Reductions".

The test results showed that the ActivePure Technology reduces the amount of these organisms by as much as 96.4% to 100% over that of the "Natural Reduction" (or Die Off) within a 24-hour period.

Further, the test results indicates that after 2 hours of exposure to ActivePure Technology, the average reduction of these organisms was more than 80%.

After 6 hours, the average reductions of these organisms was well over 90%.


3.0 REPORT # 2: EFFICACY OF ECOQUEST RADIANT CATALYTIC IONIZATION (ACTIVEPURE) CELL AND BREEZE AT OZONE GENERATORS AT REDUCING MICROBIAL POPULATIONS ON STAINLESS STEEL SURFACES




The purpose of this study was to compare the abilities of two technologies in killing various micro-organisms.

These two technologies are:

Ozone Technology (which has recently been approved for use on food contact surfaces in the U.S) and

ActivePure Technology

The test results (documented in this report) indicated that both of these technologies were effective in killing off these micro-organism.

Further, the results indicated that ActivePure Technology was far superior (over an above that of Ozone) in its ability to kill off these micro-organism (killing more in less time).



4.0 REPORT # 3: EFFECTS OF ACTIVEPURE (RCI) TECHNOLOGY ON REDUCING AVIAN INFLUENZA A (H5N8) ON SURFACES IN 12-HOUR TESTING
Influenza A (or Bird Flu) commonly infects humans, swine (or pigs), horses and birds.

Many scientists believe that Bird Flu (H5N1) is the greatest threat to the human population for two reasons.

a. It is constantly present in certain regions of the world (such as Asia, Africa and portions of Europe).

b. It is highly lethal - A vast majority of the birds and animals (including humans) that contract this disease die from it.

At the time when this blog post was written, there has been a lot of news and focus on Swine Flu (H1N1).

Many scientists will acknowledge that Swine Flu can be troublesome to many people (especially for already sick and elderly people) and it is highly contagious (e.g., human to human transmission is very easy.)

However, Swine Flu (for all of its publicity) is NOT the "nightmare flu" that these scientists have been fearing. The lethality of Swine Flu is comparable to that of many other flus that spread throughout the planet each year.

The presence of Bird Flu (H5N1) and some of the following scenarios actually keep these scientists awake.

Horrible Scenario # 1:
For now, Bird Flu (H5N1) mostly seems to infects birds or people (that work very closely with infected birds).

At this time, this virus does not seem to be very contagious for human to human transmission (like Swine Flu is).

However, if changes were to occur within the Bird Flu virus (such that the transmission of the virus from one human to another human would suddenly become very easy), this would greatly concern scientists, or

Horrible Scenario # 2:
If the Bird Flu virus were to "mix it up and mingle" with the Swine Flu virus; such that this new flu virus has the "lethality" (e.g., kill ratio) of Bird Flu and the contagious features of Swine Flu; this would be a catastrophe for the human race.

During an outbreak of the flu (any flu), rapid containment is extremely important in order to prevent the spread of these viruses throughout the human population.

The Flu virus has been shown to survive on many porous surfaces for up to 48 hours and on material such as cloth, paper or tissue for up to 12 hours.

Therefore, some of the things that we need to do (to contain an outbreak of the flu) is to sanitize and disinfect surfaces and to kill the viruses while they are also airborne.

Test Activities:
Because of the dangers of using actual samples of the H5N1 virus (to the research team) a less dangerous (yet structurally similar) virus (H5N8) was used in instead.

In this experiment, samples of H5N8 were exposed to the ActivePure Technology for 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, 10 hours and 12 hours.

The research team also had some "control samples of the H5N8 virus which were not exposed to the ActivePure Technology.

The intent of the "control samples" were to isolate the effects of the "natural reduction (or die off) of the H5N8 virus (when exposed to air) from that of the ActivePure Technology.

The results of this experiment has been presented in the graph (above) and in the three graphs within the KSU Research Report itself.


NOTE: These plots represent how effective the ActivePure Technology was at killing the H5N8 Virus OVER AND ABOVE the "natural die off" effect.

Click here to access and read the Actual Research Reports from Kansas State University.




5.0 A LIST OF PRODUCTS THAT CONTAIN ACTIVEPURE TECHNOLOGY

The following is a list of products (and their links) that contains the ActivePure Technology (which is Manufactured by Ecoquest International).

Find out about any time-limited special offers that we periodically run on these products by clicking on the appropriate link below.

The FreshAir Unit

The FreshAir Everest

The FreshAir To Go - Portable Air Purification/Cold & Flu Prevention System

The EcoBox

The FreshAir HEPA System (formerly known as the Gemini)

The Refresh - Refrigerator Deodorizer/Foodborne Illness Prevention System

The Ductworx

The PHX - The Business/Office Cold & Flu Prevention System



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