Does the water claim concern PFOA or the broader PFAS family?
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Does the water claim concern PFOA or the broader PFAS family?
The published water sentence names PFOA, and it names it for capture, not for destruction.
The Water page states: “The NanoFlashing™ Water Filter attracts and captures PFOA, and destroys viruses, bacteria and fungal spores.” In its own body it puts the same thing this way: the filter has a permanent positive polarity, a fixed positive charge, and it attracts and captures certain PFOAs. Attracting and capturing is what the page claims for that compound. The destruction sentence on the same page is a separate sentence, and it is about viruses, bacteria and fungal spores. 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.
The company's technology page carries a different sentence, about what the polarity attracts in general: “NanoFlashing™ is a patented permanent positive polarity (3P) technology that attracts and captures negatively charged pollutants, including PFAS, ultrafine particles, wildfire smoke, and pollen.” The two sentences sit on two pages. The water claim is the Water page's own sentence, and PFOA is the word that page uses. The company makes no claim about removing a fluorinated compound from air.
The Terms of Use state that, as of their effective date, the Water chapter describes a Research Application, and that it does not describe a finished product currently available from C-POLAR for that use. The company publishes no result for a compound its testing did not cover, and it does not carry a result across to one.
Source: C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™ Water, https://cpolar.tech/water/; C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™, https://cpolar.tech/nanoflashing/; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, sections 3 and 4, https://cpolar.tech/terms/.
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