What patient-outcome claim, if any, has evidence that applies to the intended clinical use?
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What patient-outcome claim, if any, has evidence that applies to the intended clinical use?
No evidence that C-POLAR publishes applies to a patient outcome in any clinical use.
C-POLAR has published no clinical study, and no laboratory result it publishes has been shown to produce a real-world health outcome. A quotation on a page is the words of the person named with it: the home page quotes Prof. Michael K. Mansour, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, and names him with his words: “The utilization of NanoFlashing™ as an essential interrupter, breaking the chain of microbial spread, and reducing infections in multiple applications, results in improved overall health.”
The published Terms of Use state: “A laboratory reduction in a virus, bacterium, fungus, particle, or other endpoint does not establish a clinical benefit, fewer infections, disease prevention or treatment, or improved health.” What the company has published is laboratory testing, named on its Validation page with the institutions and the conditions tested; measurements in buildings, not in patients, which the same page says were independently measured with MicronView's 405 nm Bio-fluorescent Air Monitoring System; and the peer-reviewed paper Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology. A capture rating under ASHRAE 52.2 or ISO 16890 measures what a filter takes out of the air, and it says nothing about a patient. A question about a proposed study goes to [email protected]. The paper reports laboratory results on SARS-CoV-2 in contact with treated textile, on aerosolised bovine coronavirus passed through a test filter in a wind tunnel, and on bacterial viability on treated textiles; each result belongs to the article that was tested.
Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.04097-23; C-POLAR — Home, https://cpolar.tech/.
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