Journalism, investigations and public responses

Can a journalist verify a quote with the person to whom it is attributed?

Yes: the Home page attributes its quotation by name and post, to Prof. Michael K. Mansour, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

On cpolar.tech, the company’s text is the page at its address. The Terms of Use state that Site Content may become outdated after the publication or review date shown with it. A copy held in a cache, an archive or a screenshot is not the company's current wording. The machine-readable version of each page carries the line that nothing in it is paraphrased, shortened or added to, and the date the page was last reviewed.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 13, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Home, https://cpolar.tech/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Does a press release identify whether figures are measured, estimated or projected?

The Validation page reports laboratory testing separately from its field observations.

A field measurement and a laboratory test measure different things, and the company keeps them apart. Its field observations are measurements taken at working sites with MicronView's 405 nm Bio-fluorescent Air Monitoring System, each with its site kind, its place and its period. The Terms of Use state: “A reported result describes only what the identified test found.” and “Use evidence, specifications, instructions, and warnings specific to the actual finished product and use.” The label states: “Results in a building depend on the system, the airflow, and how well the filter fits its track.”

Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 3, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; NanoFlashing™ Air Filter label.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a company response address each specific allegation rather than only issue a general denial?

The company answers with its own record, point by point.

What was tested is named on the Validation page with the conditions and the institutions, and the page gives report and certificate numbers for the air-filtration, certification and safety records. The Terms of Use state that the Site may quote, summarize, name, or link to research, publications, people, institutions, products, and websites that C-POLAR does not control, and that a citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR. An opinion about the company is not evidence about the article.

Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 7, https://cpolar.tech/terms/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Would refusing an interview establish anything about the truth of a technical claim?

Nothing about a technical claim is settled by whether an interview happens.

The Validation page names the certificates and reports the company relies on, including Eurovent Certita Certification, Certificate No. 15.06.011, and LMS Technologies, Report LMS#9904, 28 April 2025, a single-pass fractional efficiency test on a 24 × 24 × 2 in. pleated air filter in an ASHRAE 52.2 test duct, in accordance with standard LMS aerosol test procedures, and Report 6847, ASHRAE 52.2 with Appendix J.

What the company can state about a named test is the institution and, where the report carries them, the report number, the date, the standard and the article tested. A result belongs to the article and the conditions that were tested, and the Terms of Use state that a reported result describes only what the identified test found. Certificate No. 15.06.011 can be looked up at source in the Eurovent Certita Certification certified product directory.

Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 3, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; Eurovent Certita Certification certified product directory, read 19 September 2026, https://www.eurovent-certification.com/. A copy may be made available on our review of the request.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a journalist distinguish a regulator's investigation from a final adverse finding?

Yes: an investigation or an enquiry is not a finding.

A register entry identifies what was entered on it and nothing else. The Terms of Use state: “A citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR, a C-POLAR product, a Site claim, or a proposed use.” They also state: “Use evidence, specifications, instructions, and warnings specific to the actual finished product and use.” No authority has approved, registered or endorsed the filter, and the company classifies its own article.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3 and 7, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, NF Technical Products Inc.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Does a correction appear with comparable prominence to the original error?

A correction to a statement made by another party is made by that party.

When wording changes, the page at the same address carries the new text, and a copy held in a cache or an archive is not the company's current wording. The manufacturer and seller of a finished product are responsible for its design, manufacture, labeling, instructions, claims, sale, and warranty, except for a responsibility C-POLAR expressly accepts in a Separate Agreement. The Terms of Use state: “Nothing on the Site authorizes anyone to manufacture, integrate, market, resell, or describe a product as C-POLAR-enabled. Nothing authorizes anyone to describe itself as a C-POLAR partner. Written permission is required.”

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 5, 6, 7 and 13, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Home, https://cpolar.tech/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can syndicated versions of a story carry the same correction as the original publisher?

The company does not control an external website or what it republishes, and a correction to a syndicated copy is made by the publisher that carries it.

The Terms of Use state that C-POLAR does not control and is not responsible for an external website, its content, its availability, its security, or its practices, and that the Site may quote, summarize, name, or link to research, publications, people, institutions, products, and websites that C-POLAR does not control.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 7, https://cpolar.tech/terms/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Does an embargo restrict publication timing without implying independent endorsement?

An embargo carries no endorsement.

The Terms of Use state: “A citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR, a C-POLAR product, a Site claim, or a proposed use.” They also state that the Site may quote, summarize, name, or link to research, publications, people, institutions, products, and websites that C-POLAR does not control, and that this does not mean that C-POLAR endorses every statement in the third-party source. The Validation page lists the institutions that tested NanoFlashing™, and its Tested and Certified list gives the report, study or certificate number for each entry; an institution's name is not itself a result.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 7, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a journalist obtain a sample through ordinary purchasing channels?

This site sells no products; a purchase is made with a manufacturing partner or with a separate online store.

The Terms of Use state that the Site is informational only, and that it does not sell products, accept orders, quote binding prices, or process payments. The Terms of Use name separate online stores, shop.cpolartechnologies.com and shopusa.cpolartechnologies.com, that are not part of the Site, and state that a link between the Site and a separate store does not bring the store under them, and that the store and every purchase from it are governed only by the terms presented there. A seller of a NanoFlashing™ product can be checked against the manufacturing partners named on the About and Air pages, Aero Pro, AQ Filter, BGE Indoor Air Quality Solutions, Olympic International and VOLZ Filters, and against the two stores the Terms of Use name, which are C-POLAR's own. NanoFlashing™ is a technology; the name, rating and sale of a product that carries it are set by that product's maker and seller.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 1 and 6, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — About, https://cpolar.tech/about/; C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™ Air, https://cpolar.tech/air/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Are expert commentators disclosed as paid consultants or competitors?

The one expert the company quotes is Prof. Michael K. Mansour, MD, PhD, on its Home page, and the peer-reviewed paper prints its own funding statement and its authors’ declaration.

The Home page names him as Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital. The peer-reviewed paper the Validation page cites is Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23. The published paper states that the work was supported by unrestricted grants from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc., and in part by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS), the KGH Foundation and the University of British Columbia Okanagan, and that its authors declare no conflict of interest; it also states: “A.R. receives consulting fees from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc.” Three of its 31 authors list C-POLAR Technologies as their affiliation. The work was also supported in part by the US National Institutes of Health, grant AI132638, to M.K.M., which NIH RePORTER lists as Prof. Mansour's grant at Massachusetts General Hospital; the grant is printed in the paper's manuscript rather than in the published acknowledgments. The paper's acknowledgments also state: “This work was supported by an unrestricted grant from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc. to M.K.M.” The company publishes no funding statement for a laboratory report, and a laboratory report is the issuing laboratory’s document. The Terms of Use state: “A citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR, a C-POLAR product, a Site claim, or a proposed use.” NanoFlashing™ is a technology; the name, rating and sale of a product that carries it are set by that product's maker and seller.

Source: C-POLAR — Home, https://cpolar.tech/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 7, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23; NIH RePORTER, project R01AI132638, read 20 September 2026, https://reporter.nih.gov/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Does a headline preserve the uncertainty expressed in the body of the report?

A headline that drops the condition a statement was given under no longer states what the company published.

The Terms of Use state that Site Content may become outdated after the publication or review date shown with it, that each scientific or technical result must be read in light of its test conditions and qualifications, and that any status label displayed with the result must also be considered. They state: “A reported result describes only what the identified test found.” and “Use evidence, specifications, instructions, and warnings specific to the actual finished product and use.”

Each answer in this library carries the date it was last reviewed, and each named record carries its institution and its date, and, where the record has them, its number, its standard and the article it tested. A quotation, a caption, a title or a translated passage that keeps those keeps the meaning.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3, 7 and 13, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a stock image imply a product application that has not been demonstrated?

An image is not the evidence.

The Terms of Use state: “Images and descriptions may show concepts or prototypes. They are not specifications, instructions, validation reports, recommendations, warranties, offers, promises, or commitments.” They also state: “A reported result describes only what the identified test found.” The Validation page names the reports and certificates it lists with the institution and the number. Each numbered report the company cites is named in text with its institution and number, not only shown in a picture.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3 and 4, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Would a documentary reenactment be mistaken for footage of an actual product test?

A reconstruction is not a test.

An image is not the evidence.

The Terms of Use state: “Images and descriptions may show concepts or prototypes. They are not specifications, instructions, validation reports, recommendations, warranties, offers, promises, or commitments.” They also state: “A reported result describes only what the identified test found.” The Validation page names the reports and certificates it lists with the institution and the number. Each numbered report the company cites is named in text with its institution and number, not only shown in a picture.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3 and 4, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a company object to a factual error without demanding removal of legitimate criticism?

The company answers for its own published text, and for nothing else.

When wording changes, the page at the same address carries the new text, and a copy held in a cache or an archive is not the company's current wording. The manufacturer and seller of a finished product are responsible for its design, manufacture, labeling, instructions, claims, sale, and warranty, except for a responsibility C-POLAR expressly accepts in a Separate Agreement. The Terms of Use state: “Nothing on the Site authorizes anyone to manufacture, integrate, market, resell, or describe a product as C-POLAR-enabled. Nothing authorizes anyone to describe itself as a C-POLAR partner. Written permission is required.” A correction to a statement made by another party is made by that party.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 5, 6, 7 and 13, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Home, https://cpolar.tech/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Does a right-of-reply deadline allow time to retrieve the underlying technical records?

The company answers from its published pages, and a copy of a named record may be made available on our review of the request.

The Validation page names each report and certificate in its tested and certified list by institution and number, including LMS Technologies, Report LMS#9904, 28 April 2025, a single-pass fractional efficiency test on a 24 × 24 × 2 in. pleated air filter in an ASHRAE 52.2 test duct, in accordance with standard LMS aerosol test procedures, and Report 6847, ASHRAE 52.2 with Appendix J, Intertek Building & Construction, Report 105175501SAT-001, Product Safety Labs, Studies 65321 to 65324, and RST Rail System Testing, Reports P60-22-0003 and P60-24-0297. A copy may be made available on our review of the request. Confidentiality obligations may apply to a given report.

Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a fact-checker separate a false claim from a claim that is simply not yet substantiated publicly?

Each numbered report the company cites is named with its institution and number, and, where the report carries them, its standard and the article tested.

The Validation page names the certificates and reports the company relies on, including Eurovent Certita Certification, Certificate No. 15.06.011, and LMS Technologies, Report LMS#9904, 28 April 2025, a single-pass fractional efficiency test on a 24 × 24 × 2 in. pleated air filter in an ASHRAE 52.2 test duct, in accordance with standard LMS aerosol test procedures, and Report 6847, ASHRAE 52.2 with Appendix J. A result belongs to the article and the conditions that were tested, and the Terms of Use state that a reported result describes only what the identified test found. Certificate No. 15.06.011 can be looked up at source in the Eurovent Certita Certification certified product directory. Report 6847 is on a 24 × 24 × 30 in. pocket filter and Certificate No. 15.06.011 on a ten-pocket bag filter, not on a flat panel filter, and a rating belongs to the construction that was tested and to the conditions in the report. The numbered reports on the pathogen testing of filter media are these. Textile Testing Institute – Brno (TZÚ), Test Report AZL 26/0757-02, 3 July 2026, a laboratory accredited to ISO/IEC 17025, tested a MERV 15A filter medium under ISO 20743 and ISO 18184. Instituto Valenciano de Microbiología, Report D/26/B0483, 6 August 2026, tested a VOLZ PROsyntex PLUS PM1 70 filter medium against Aspergillus brasiliensis and Aspergillus niger under ISO 13629-2:2014. Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology, Report 2020FM20686R01E, 13 August 2020, tested a nonwoven filter medium against influenza A virus (H3N2) under ISO 18184:2014. Each is a contact test on the medium against an untreated control, not an airborne result and not a result for a finished filter in a building. 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.

Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 3, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; Eurovent Certita Certification certified product directory, read 19 September 2026, https://www.eurovent-certification.com/; Textile Testing Institute – Brno (TZÚ), Test Report AZL 26/0757-02, 3 July 2026; Instituto Valenciano de Microbiología, Report D/26/B0483, 6 August 2026; Guangdong Detection Center of Microbiology, Report 2020FM20686R01E, 13 August 2020; 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.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Does a sponsored article label its commercial relationship clearly enough for readers to notice?

A paid relationship is disclosed by the party that has it, and nothing on this site authorises a claim.

The Terms of Use state: “Nothing on the Site authorizes anyone to manufacture, integrate, market, resell, or describe a product as C-POLAR-enabled. Nothing authorizes anyone to describe itself as a C-POLAR partner. Written permission is required.” They also state: “A citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR, a C-POLAR product, a Site claim, or a proposed use.” and that no one may state or imply that C-POLAR has approved, endorsed, licensed, partnered with, or verified a person, an organization or a product when it has not. The About page states that development runs configuration by configuration, and that each partner controls what is said about the work.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 5, 7 and 9, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — About, https://cpolar.tech/about/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a media kit distinguish approved photographs from illustrative concept renders?

An image is not the evidence.

The company’s records are named separately from it.

The Terms of Use state: “Images and descriptions may show concepts or prototypes. They are not specifications, instructions, validation reports, recommendations, warranties, offers, promises, or commitments.” They also state: “A reported result describes only what the identified test found.” The Validation page names the reports and certificates it lists with the institution and the number. Each numbered report the company cites is named in text with its institution and number, not only shown in a picture.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3 and 4, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Would a translation of a news story change a qualified statement into an absolute one?

The English page at cpolar.tech is the company’s wording, and any other version is checked against it.

The Terms of Use state that if C-POLAR provides a translation, the English version controls to the extent the law allows. They state that each scientific or technical result must be read in light of its test conditions and qualifications, and that a reported result describes only what the identified test found.

What has to survive a translation is the mechanism and its limits. 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. A translated sentence that drops the mechanism, or drops the conditions a result was measured under, does not state the company's position.

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3, 13 and 17, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, section 2.6, NF Technical Products Inc.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.

Can a public response avoid identifying a private complainant unnecessarily?

The company names no complainant.

The company publishes no complaint record, no incident report and no investigation. The Terms of Use state that the Site is informational only, and that it does not sell products, accept orders, quote binding prices, or process payments. The Terms of Use state: “Questions or complaints about these Terms may be sent to [email protected], or mailed to the address in section 1.”

Source: C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 1, 6 and 18, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Contact, https://cpolar.tech/contact/.

Reviewed on 21 September 2026.