Ditch your UV disinfecting device: It can be harmful to your health

Health authorities and experts have been warning about the use and safety of UV disinfecting products for killing the novel coronavirus, germs and bacteria on surfaces. CBC Marketplace looks into the devices’ claims and finds many are not cleared for sale in Canada.
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[@erindewan6758]

Why is this produced like its a segment on a kids show?

[@nathanielmcdonald1910]

the only uv lights in my place are growing weeds... wait

[@lesau.9205]

Now that's some funny stuff! Well I sure am laughing oh I took my medical M. Everything is funny tonight!🤣🤣🤣

[@dapwn3ritswatido]

*_KNOCKS_* Horse Police! Open up!!! *_Busts open your door_* .mp4

[@hhiippiittyy]

Wrong spectrum but whatever works for ya, bud.

[@easypeasyartcom]

Ha ha advert before this vid was for a UV disinfecting light !

[@janicewiehe9936]

Me too.🤣

[@marie-franceFortin]

Same! Lol

[@sinisterminister6478]

Me as well.

[@hhiippiittyy]

Yup. First one I've ever seen.

[@loveandbeauty88]

I have a Lumin UV-C cleaner. It’s a shelf drawer type device made to disinfect CPAP equipment for sleep apnea, takes about 5 minutes and has no ozone. Its been around long before covid and it’s also able to disinfect any object you can fit in it. So it is reliable and safe, but around 300$ and they are now being reserved now for health care workers/hospitals to disinfect N95s if you look at their site. Glad i already had mine use it everyday.

[@kara6320]

Consumer UV devices always seemed too good to be true. I saw a video of someone promoting a UV device by waving it over their food and beverage at a restaurant all in under a minute... it just made me roll my eyes

[@JogBird]

the animation of the dna and rna is incorrect

[@truantray]

Much about the information on UVC is wrong.

[@NY411Info]

This post did not do any actual testing of any of the products. It would've been a good post with tests, like your Hepa filter actual tests.

[@new-knowledge8040]

These devices can be really dangerous. One of them totally destroyed the fungus in patch of fungal infected skin. And so I had to stick with the fact that my skin infection was gone for good. Oh well. I had to live with healthy skin from then on. Damn deices.

[@Francois_Dupont]

2:46 there is so much wrong, this is beyond me to even try explain.

[@madelynmackintosh]

I was just thinking that lmao, how did nobody catch it before air

[@electrodacus]

I think they did not wanted to invest to much in the animation. It is all the one that made the animation could do with simple animation tools.

[@hateercenor]

Physics vs low quality humanity degree who wins? Physics always wins. 2:39 as expected the huge technical error. UV-c is absorbed by the atmosphere not "burned up"

[@jeycalc6877]

as someone who has an engineering degree your comment is incredibly ignorant. Humanities are extremely important.

[@crashweaverda]

Cool I new that tanning bed I brought back in the 90s would come in handy.Awesome!!!!

[@brianlk5279]

That DNA-RNA bond though

[@LegendaryWaterBottle]

lmaooo

[@diamondsblackroses2549]

Not food, skin or plants.🤷🏽‍♀️

[@Eric-oj1cl]

Instead of disinfecting via UVC lamp, try spray disinfectant on your items, it is better. Or soak your key with Clorox

[@randompersonoverhere]

New research shows that UV-C is the safest as it can’t even penetrate the first layer of cell on your eye ball. The problem is that bulb that only emits UV-C is very expensive so most of those device will have bulb that emits a whole spectrum of UV light. Quite a few inaccuracies in this video. CBC I expect better.

[@teardowndan5364]

Another problem with real UVC lamps is that the quartz glass degrades over time and eventually quits passing UVC, so 182nm output needs to be monitored to ensure the lamp is still usable or the lamp just periodically replaced after a specified number of operating hours regardless of whether it still lights up.

[@hateercenor]

Reprinted social media but edited to be harder to read verify and fact check.

[@teagan_p_999]

Makes sense. I wouldn't expect a wand to work very well, and it seems dangerous to have the light uncontained. I've had a UV box that I use to clean my phone every day for a few years now, though I've never looked seriously into it. Obviously, it's not a substitute for handwashing and the like, but it made me feel safer about the potential level of nasties on my phone long before pandemic times.

[@cloverdog85]

We have the sealed bag to clean phones at my work. I put my phone and keys in to clean them. It sits in the bag for 20 minutes.

[@traceynomatterwhat383]

@tj which bag? Thanks in advance. (Edit, I hadn’t watched the video yet. Which one do you have? Homemedics? I almost bought that one a few months ago, but didn’t know if it was trustworthy.)

[@cloverdog85]

@@traceynomatterwhat383 yes its the big one from the source. Im not really sure but it turns off after 20 minutes telling you its done.

[@traceynomatterwhat383]

@@cloverdog85 thank you for taking the time to reply. Wishing you and your loved ones safety, peace, and as much lighthearted laughter as you can get in these incredibly unpredictable and stressful times. 😊🇨🇦

[@Jen-zk9se]

But can it give me a tan....

[@drivingwithgabe]

49 people own this product...why would you dislike this anyways haha

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

Things like this this should be illegal. Or maybe we need to up our education system.

[@truantray]

Making consumer education videos with bad science doesn't help, but your point is right on and needs to start with media hiring writers with some scientific education.

[@PureVikingPowers]

Yeah because raves are the cleanest places, people buy into anything now.

[@ashtoncunningham6981]

I like how they give me tan without going out still can keep my tan during lockdown

[@DrX_1030]

I thought the ozone layer was good? Also ozone is 100% a disinfectant

[@simonruszczak5563]

It's not a layer (and there's no holes) but it is good.

[@HJohal-qb1jg]

Ozone is O3 and it's naturally abundant in the earth's stratosphere (look up ozone cycle) and is required for us to continue living, think ozone layer. These guy's didn't do their research at all...

[@teardowndan5364]

Stratospheric O3 is fine. High concentration of ground-level O3 such as that often contained in smog on the other hand is bad since O3 is a relatively strong irritant and real O3 lamps can generate a significant amount of indoors O3.

[@HJohal-qb1jg]

@@teardowndan5364 Right, I get that but the amount these little gadgets can produce - I highly doubt would cross the allowable limits, no?

[@teardowndan5364]

@@HJohal-qb1jg Most If your UVC lamp isn't powerful enough to produce an unpleasant amount of ozone, it likely isn't powerful enough to disinfect anything within a reasonable amount of time. UVC disinfects by ionizing radiation, which is the same process that causes it to generate ozone. Some hotels use UVC mercury lamps as relatively high volume ozone generators to clear persistent smells from rooms.

[@justbe1451]

I think this was Trump's idea. 😬

[@nadircarlson5785]

😂😂😂

[@Baoaa123]

Ozone is NOT very bad for mother earth... quite the opposite! What a frustrating claim to hear!

[@teardowndan5364]

Too much ground-level ozone is bad for things that live on it since ozone is a relatively strong irritant, oxidizer and contributor to smog. Stratospheric ozone (high enough that it isn't bothering anybody including airplanes at 10km cruise altitude) is good since that's what blocks most UV.

[@albinocontreras2388]

hi 1

[@BenyaminLimanto]

If only there're CBC news in Indonesia, and they educate people.. There won't be dumb people anymore.

[@tannerdowney2802]

Wait, ozone is bad now... bring back CFC's!

[@Nick-Lab]

The dna/rna animation is grossly inaccurate... they are not bonded to each other lol