Ozone Sanitizing

To answer the question about ozone sanitizing, yes, ozone is a well-recognized sanitizer. Ozone is used in aquariums, large and small, to sanitize the water and prevent disease to the fish. Ozone is also added to most water treatment plants and waste water treatment facilities to kill pathogens.

Farms will bubble ozone into water supplies for animals to keep disease out. Dentists use small applications of ozone to kill bacteria and destroy plaque on teeth.

Ozone does not use extreme pH (acid or alkaline) chemical to kill pathogens. Instead, oxidation is a kind of micro-burning that burns thousands of holes in the other membrane of the bacteria or virus. An ozone treatment pushed billions upon billions of ozone molecules into the air. All exposed areas are touched, which means there is a treatment of all exposed surfaces.

Treatments of even 15-30 minutes will kill many pathogens, but a proper treatment of one hour is considered sufficient to sanitize a room. We suggest using an ozone generator on a timer to prevent accidental over-treatment.