Survey of Home‐Use UV Disinfection Products

The COVID‐19 pandemic provided a commercial opportunity for traders marketing a range of ultraviolet (UV) radiation products for home‐use disinfection. Due to concerns about the efficacy of such products and the potential for harmful levels of UV exposure to people, a range of products were purchase...

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Autores principales: Khazova, Marina, Johnstone, Liam, Naldzhiev, Dzhordzhio, O'Hagan, John B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Special Issue Research Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33779994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/php.13423
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description The COVID‐19 pandemic provided a commercial opportunity for traders marketing a range of ultraviolet (UV) radiation products for home‐use disinfection. Due to concerns about the efficacy of such products and the potential for harmful levels of UV exposure to people, a range of products were purchased from on‐line trading platforms. Spectral irradiance measurements were carried out to determine whether the products could be effective against the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus and whether they were likely to exceed internationally agreed exposure limits. It was concluded that many of the devices were not effective and many of those that were potentially effective presented a risk to users.
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spelling pubmed-82505902021-07-02 Survey of Home‐Use UV Disinfection Products Khazova, Marina Johnstone, Liam Naldzhiev, Dzhordzhio O'Hagan, John B. Photochem Photobiol Special Issue Research Articles The COVID‐19 pandemic provided a commercial opportunity for traders marketing a range of ultraviolet (UV) radiation products for home‐use disinfection. Due to concerns about the efficacy of such products and the potential for harmful levels of UV exposure to people, a range of products were purchased from on‐line trading platforms. Spectral irradiance measurements were carried out to determine whether the products could be effective against the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus and whether they were likely to exceed internationally agreed exposure limits. It was concluded that many of the devices were not effective and many of those that were potentially effective presented a risk to users. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-05-04 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8250590/ /pubmed/33779994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/php.13423 Text en © 2021 Crown copyright. Photochemistry and Photobiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Photobiology. This article is published with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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