Urine odor removal seems to be a significant topic for elder care facilities. The offensive odor is the first thing people, employees and patients seem to notice upon entering many elder care facilities. Facility's maintenance and cleanliness are an absolute must for elder care facilities. The residents often have compromised immune systems and are very susceptible to disease, infection, and illness.

Urine odor removal although significant is only a minute part of air purification in the medical field. It is well documented that C-Diff, MRSA, Influenza, tuberculosis, Norovirus, Acinetobacter (a bacteria) are among many airborne pathogens that circulate in the ambient air inside these elder care facilities as well as many other health care facilities. Influenza is at the top of the list for the most contagious in nursing homes.¹ This often seasonal virus spreads rapidly by inhaling droplets that others have expelled through coughing and sneezing. Further complications of this dreaded virus often result in bronchitis or pneumonia. Residence are often encouraged to have the vaccine to help prevent the most common strains of Influenza. Unfortunately these vaccines are not able to cover all strains but do significantly reduce the occurrence of outbreaks. Air filtration does not kill this virus.

A MERV-14 filter will only filter approximately 68% of these pathogens ² but they are not destroyed.The purity of ambient air is a process that many industries throughout the world continue to focus on improving. Elder care facilities need air filtration /purification systems that insure urine odor removal and destruction of airborne pathogens.The recognized technology that does destroy volatile organic compounds, chemically active compounds (urine odor) and malignant microbes (airborne pathogens) is photocatalytic oxidation. Ultraviolet light does destroy microbes but combined with titanium dioxide as a semiconductor photocatalyst the destruction rate of malignant microbes is drastically increased. This technology is what makes Zandair™ stand out in the air purification industry. ZANDAIR™ products significantly reduce airborne pathogens, volatile organic compounds, and chemically active compounds (urine odor) by using photocatalytic oxidation technology thus insuring clean, healthy, ambient air.

¹ CDC Diseases and Organisms in the Healthcare Settings

²Aerobiological Engineering Handbook, Wladyslaw Jan Kowalski