The company’s Big ASS fans were fined nearly $ 500,000 for false advertisements on air purification equipment, including claiming that their expensive fans could eliminate 99.99 % of the virus that caused COVID-19.
On Wednesday, 11 local prosecutors in California announced their allegations with the company’s reconciliation of false and misleading advertisements with the company. Prosecutors said Big ASS fans headquartered in Kentucky have agreed to pay $ 450,000 fines and compensation, of which more than $ 320,000 will be distributed directly from California customers who purchase certain “clean air products”.
In great popularity, when people urgently hope to safely reopen the clean air equipment of schools and enterprises, the company puts forward a detailed statement on the ability of fans to neutralize and pathogens. However, the prosecutor determined that “there is not enough support for the company’s advertising proposition, and in the real world, the efficiency of advertising cannot be achieved.”
In June 2020, the company began advertising, and fans equipped with their “clean air technology” may kill more than 99 % of pathogens, including SARS-COV-2 virus, coronary virus, coronary virus, resulting in COVID-19 prosecutors Said, technology.
These claims quickly aroused criticism of air quality experts. They said that these so -called killing equipment depended on the test results running in a small space, such as shoe boxes, and did not reflect the efficiency in the actual room.
Timothy Bertram, a professor of chemicals at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Kaiser Health News in 2021: “No other ways to say-completely unproven.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also issued a statement that warned that the use of ionization to protect people from the influence of COVID-19, and a claim on the validity of the air filter.
EPA said: “This is an emerging technology that has rarely evaluated evaluation under laboratory conditions.” “” “
EPA further warns that ionizing technology may produce ozone and other potential harmful by -products in the room.
Robert Redfield, director of the first Trump administration’s US Disease Control and Prevention Center, joined a strategic health and safety consultant in April 2021, and further reviewed it.
In the announcement of his new position, Redfield said: “Proper ventilation plays an important role in reducing the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory pathogens.” Leader of the place.
As part of the settlement agreement, big butt fans must abide by a ban to make it impossible for them to propose unreal, deceive or misleading marketing proposal in the future. The settlement is by Alamida, Oranzhi, Marin, Montere, Napa, San Francisco, San Taklara, San Cruise, San Cruise, Shasta Negotiations with local prosecutors in Sonoma County.
