Comments on: More on flea market nightstand: new ozone treatment for bed bugs http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Cooper Pest evaluates ozone treatments for bed bugs, finds current methods ineffective http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/#comment-8838 Cooper Pest evaluates ozone treatments for bed bugs, finds current methods ineffective Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:25:19 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/#comment-8838 [...] Ozone has been mentioned in the past as one of several possibilities for treating bed bugs, but up until now, except for one reader’s informal experiments, we hadn’t seen any actual data about its effectiveness in eradicating bed bugs. [...] [...] Ozone has been mentioned in the past as one of several possibilities for treating bed bugs, but up until now, except for one reader’s informal experiments, we hadn’t seen any actual data about its effectiveness in eradicating bed bugs. [...]

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/#comment-4878 nobugsonme Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:00:54 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/#comment-4878 You have a better memory than I do, hopelessnomo! The discussion, brief as it is, is here: http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/64?replies=3 You have a better memory than I do, hopelessnomo!

The discussion, brief as it is, is here:
http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/64?replies=3

]]> By: hopelessnomo http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/#comment-4877 hopelessnomo Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:48:04 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/08/01/more-on-flea-market-nightstand-new-ozone-treatment-for-bed-bugs/#comment-4877 That's plenty exciting, Nobugs. I searched the forums and it seems one PCO we know experimented with this, but it's not clear whether he bought the CleanZone generator or something else. He constructed a test with bedbugs and said he had 50% mortality in 12 hours. He thought he would probably need at least one more unit. (He explained he already had experience with ozone generators in his kennels and was interested in trying them out for bedbugs.) The thread is "Ozone Experiment." According to this <a href="http://pc.adv100.com/pestcontrol/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=326726" rel="nofollow">article</a>, CleanZone was still getting partial results with bedbugs last year and was beginning tests to see how long to achieve 100% mortality. From the CleanZone website <a href="http://www.cleanzonesystems.com/Business-Opportunities_FAQS.asp" rel="nofollow">FAQ</a>: <blockquote>Conservatively speaking, we can safety say that a home of approximately 2,500 sq. ft. will require an initial treatment of 14-16 hour utilizing up to four generators; that equates to one treatment per day.</blockquote> I can already see how this is a) expensive and b) probably not available for apartment dwellers. Still, the possible applications are so interesting. In a probable marketing ploy, this company offered to sanitize two Chicago buses or transit cars. Can't they help Delta sanitize its planes? That’s plenty exciting, Nobugs.

I searched the forums and it seems one PCO we know experimented with this, but it’s not clear whether he bought the CleanZone generator or something else. He constructed a test with bedbugs and said he had 50% mortality in 12 hours. He thought he would probably need at least one more unit. (He explained he already had experience with ozone generators in his kennels and was interested in trying them out for bedbugs.) The thread is “Ozone Experiment.”

According to this article, CleanZone was still getting partial results with bedbugs last year and was beginning tests to see how long to achieve 100% mortality.

From the CleanZone website FAQ:

Conservatively speaking, we can safety say that a home of approximately 2,500 sq. ft. will require an initial treatment of 14-16 hour utilizing up to four generators; that equates to one treatment per day.

I can already see how this is a) expensive and b) probably not available for apartment dwellers.

Still, the possible applications are so interesting. In a probable marketing ploy, this company offered to sanitize two Chicago buses or transit cars.

Can’t they help Delta sanitize its planes?

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