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Does NanoFlashing work against flu viruses?

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Does NanoFlashing work against flu viruses?

In a laboratory contact test, influenza A virus (H3N2) recovered from a treated nonwoven filter medium was lower than from an untreated control.

Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology, Report 2020FM20686R01E, 13 August 2020, tested a nonwoven filter medium against influenza A virus (H3N2) under ISO 18184:2014, and the report records a logarithm of antiviral activity of 4.34 for that medium against an untreated control. ISO 18184 measures virus recovered from treated textile against an untreated control; it is a contact test on the medium, not an airborne or in-use result. The Viruses page shows airborne virus at 1.3 m/s airflow, NanoFlashing™ beside a control, and states: “NanoFlashing™ captures the virus, and destroys it.” The Mold page shows airborne mold spores at 1.6 m/s airflow, NanoFlashing™ beside a control, and states: “NanoFlashing™ captures the mold, and destroys it.” The Mold page also states that researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in a study with funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, tested NanoFlashing™ with more than 100 million live, dry spores driven in by fast-moving air. The filter is intended to destroy the viruses, bacteria and fungal spores it captures. It destroys them on direct contact with the positive electric charge, by physical means, and only while the organism is captured by the positive electric charge.

Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, NF Technical Products Inc., section 2.6; Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology, Report 2020FM20686R01E, 13 August 2020, ISO 18184:2014; C-POLAR — Viruses, https://cpolar.tech/contaminants/viruses/; C-POLAR — Mold, https://cpolar.tech/contaminants/mold/. A copy may be made available on our review of the request.

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Sources

  1. C-POLAR — Validation
  2. Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, NF Technical Products Inc.
  3. Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology, Report 2020FM20686R01E, 13 August 2020, ISO 18184:2014
  4. C-POLAR — Viruses
  5. C-POLAR — Mold
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