The following excerpt is from a press release from the IQAir company referring to the Consumer Report’s December 2007 article reviewing air purifiers.  We thought it raises some good points about some flaws in the article.

“In Consumer Reports’ December 2007 article “Air Purifiers Filtering the Claims,” the popular product review magazine admits that the air purifier they recommended as #1 for 15 years produces ozone and may be potentially harmful. According to IQAir North America, the magazine’s continued lack of in-depth comparison is still causing them to recommend inferior and potentially unhealthy products while failing to acknowledge IQAir’s vastly superior HealthPro Plus room air purifier.

“Consumer Reports air purifier review completely fails consumers,” says Frank Hammes, President of IQAir. “It took Consumer Reports 15 years to come to the simple realization that an air purifier should not produce a lung irritant. It could take them another 15 years to realize their entire rating process is fundamentally flawed. Readers believe the magazine is conducting a thorough and in-depth review of air purifiers, but the truth is that their testing is so superficial it causes Consumer Reports to make the wrong recommendations.”

IQAir met with Consumer Reports in January 2006 to discuss a number of ways the magazine needed to improve their testing process.

“They incorporated just one of our suggested changes into their review process – rating air purifiers by whether or not they produce ozone,” says Hammes. “This one change caused Consumer Reports to drop the air purifier they had recommended as number one for 15 years down to 28th place. If they would incorporate all of the necessary changes to their review process you would see every one of their top recommended products drop down in rating.”

AllergyBuyersClub.com rates the IQAir HealthPro Plus air purifier as the best high-performance Hepa air cleaner currently on the market today.  The company has given the air cleaner a five star rating for removing allergens, pet dander, viruses, dust mites, mold spores and bacteria.  Starting at $649 for the IQAir Compact HealthPro air purifier.