consumer saturday; doubts fail to block the sale of air cleaner - air cleaner

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Despite widespread suspicion
The ion generators do anything of value and they are back in the market.
The devices, which cost $50 to $250, are designed to add negatively charged electrons to oxygen molecules.
The manufacturer claims that this makes the person in the room where the equipment is placed feel "great, energetic and alert ".
"According to the manufacturer, a shower of lithium ions collided with pollutants in the air such as smoke, cigarette smoke, pollen, dust and bacteria, causing them to deposit on walls and ceilings.
The result, the manufacturer says, is that tiny pollutants that can be sucked out of the air.
The Food and Drug Administration confiscated the equipment in the 1960s s on the grounds that it did not meet the health benefits claimed by the manufacturer, and now the equipment is only sold as an air purifier.
In Washington, Wayne L.
Burns, deputy commissioner of F. D. A.
He said that since the generator appeared on the market, no one had proposed a properly controlled study to determine the claimed benefits.
He went on to say, "What we care most about is the people who believe in advertising and the word --of-
These products will actually help them and therefore delay medical treatment.
According to Dean A, the advertisement still exists. Barlow, the F. D. A.
Consumer safety officials say the agency will not be directly involved again as long as the manufacturer does not make any new treatment requirements.
According to Richard Shorr, Ion Foundation in Studio City, California, last year's advertising
He's the president, selling 70,000 units through direct mail, three months, and the rest through health sales.
Food stores and foreign distributors.
They are made by the Foundation and other companies, including the ion systems company in Berkeley, California.
Biotech in QuebecThough Mr.
Some scientists have reported favorable findings, and pine trees have ruled out any scientific basis for this device.
One of them, doctor. Albert P.
Kruger, former chairman of the Department of Microbiology at UC Berkeley, studied ions for 26 years and published 75 papers, said he found that plants grow faster and animals survive better in ion environments
Enhanced environment.
Sheelah Sigel, another researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, used a limited sample to discover the psychological benefits of the generator, believing that consumers should be aware of the long-term
It has had a long-term impact.
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Winman provided articles on how to pick ballet schools in the first issue of television and review, as well as a series of columns on topics such as kites
Childhood identity symbol and choice of name.
Every month, there will be features corresponding to the functions in other services-
For magazines
In movies, TV, books, restaurants, tours, shopping and exercise.
"Entertainment is becoming more and more important as leisure time increases
According to the publisher, this has become part of family life in the United States.
"The proliferation of so many forms of entertainment has been irreversible affecting the lives of our children, sometimes positive and sometimes negative.
Because of the lack of information, it is difficult for parents to find, evaluate and decide the entertainment available.
The magazine, which has a schedule for movies, television and theater, aims to make up for the shortfall, they say, adding: "There are no magazines like it.
To be sure, there is a way (
Usually incomplete lists are buried in different parts of the newspaper or word of mouth, useless after the event passes)
Want to know what happened to the children, but not in one place.
An article in the first issue of choose ballet school was praised by experts in the field as a complete, thoughtful treatment of the subject. A nine-
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A version of this article was printed on page 1001012 of the National edition on September 19, 1981 with the title: Consumer Saturday;
Doubts failed to stop sales of air purifiers.