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is something called an electrolyzer that electrolyzes tap water to make water with sterilizing power.

There were products advertised as eliminating 99% of germs, but it turned out that most of the products had insignificant sterilization effects.



Reporter Han Ji-yeon.



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Electrolytic water is a product that electrolyzes tap water to make sterilized water.



It sold well enough to be called'special' in the corona 19 situation where hygiene is important.



Starting from the 50,000 won range, the largest is 2 to 300,000 won, and there are products over 1 million won.



It can be used not only as a hand sanitizer, but also for animal sterilization, and advertises that it can be 99% sterilized.



[Electrolyzer company officials: Because our technology decomposes water molecules without the need to burn salt, 99% of bacteria are automatically killed when the bacterial barrier is removed (with sterilization water).]



However, 15 electrolyzer products in circulation As a result of the investigation, the sterilizing power of 13 products reduced E. coli by 35.3% at most and only reduced Staphylococcus aureus, the cause of food poisoning, by 32.5%.



Six of these products have rather increased bacteria.



[Seo Young-ho / Korea Consumer Agency Safety Monitoring Bureau Team Leader: There is no test standard for the sterilization and disinfection power of the electrolyzer, so the operators used a test method that did not reflect the actual environmental conditions in which various organic substances exist.]



In the advertisement, I wrote a phrase such as non-toxic, harmless, and eco-friendly. Hypochlorous acid water, which is actually sterilizing water, cannot be used as a hand sanitizer and has not been approved as a disinfectant for companion animals.



[Electrolysis Consumer: In the case of a baby, I want to do anything good with my parents' mind... but I feel betrayed.

First of all, there is nothing to express other than saying that I was deceived and betrayed.] The



Korea Consumer Agency is planning to ask the Ministry of Environment to establish standards for evaluation of electrolytic water sterilization power.



(Video editing: Seungjin Lee, VJ: Mingu Jung)