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RGF’s PHI and REME Swine Flu Test Results In

Swine Flu Alert - Should you wake up looking like this

do not go to work - You may have

Swine Flu!Of course if you have a PHI or REME system you

probably will never wake up looking like this.

A Newsletter For Our Wholesalers, Dealers and Representatives Fall 2009

2009 H1N1 (referred to as “swine flu” early on) is a new influenza virus caus-

ing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United

States in April 2009. This virus is spreading from person-to-person world-

wide. On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) signaled

that a pandemic of 2009 H1N1 flu was underway. Spread of 2009 H1N1

virus is thought to occur in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu

viruses are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or

sneezing by people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected

by touching something – such as a surface or object – with flu viruses on it

and then touching their mouth or nose.

Disclaimer: RGF products are not medical devices and no medical claims are made.

Preliminary Testing

Shows 99+% H1N1

Kill Rate On SurfacesInitial Test Results Show 99+% Inactivation of

H1N1 Flu Virus as Kansas State University

completes preliminary testing on RGF’s Pho-

tohydroionization (PHI-Cell®) and Reflective

Electromagnetic Energy (REME® Cell) tech-

nologies with 99+% inactivation of H1N1 Flu

Virus as tested on stainless steel surfaces.

Further testing is scheduled.

IRS in Austin installs 80 Units,Plans to Study Employee Sick TimeThe IRS Center in downtown Austin, TX installed 80 units in

their entire facility. They were concerned about improving

employee morale and reducing sick time and installing

Guardian Air units in their facility to drastically improve IAQ

seemed like the perfect solution. They plan on examining

employee sick time in the year before installation and the

year after to determine how much the improvement in indoor

air quality helped. Before those results are completed, we

can already say the employees really appreciate the fresh

feeling to the air.

Orland Park, ChicagoWe had a chance to check back

in with Orland Park schools in

Chicago this week. Three years

later they’re still using Guardian

Air products and were very ex-

cited to hear that they were al-

ready doing everything to protect

their district from the H1N Flu.

Guardian Air finds happy

patrons at local smoking barsRGF recently completed two new installations in Texas at

smoking bars; both the “Bitter End” in San Antonio, TX and

“Shooters” in Cedar Park, TX. Both of these applications

were heavy on cigarette odors and it was the staff that ulti-

mately suffered. Our Representative in Texas, Todd Mont-

gomery, recommended Guardian Air units to try and combat

the constant smoke odors and VOC introduced to the space.

The units were installed at 10am and Todd received a text

that night at 4am from one of the bartenders that just simply

read “YEAH!”. After working for 14 years, the bartender said

it was the first night ever he had come home without smelling

like smoke.

Gold’s Gym Installs

Guardian Air and REMEGold’s Gym in Orlando, FL has recently began a rollout of

Guardian Air and REME units to all 8 locations around the

city. The first building with 12 units was installed and results

have been excellent. The management staff at Gold’s cur-

rently working with RGF to feature the Guardian Air in ad-

vertisements and posters all over every location as the

rollout is progressing.

Bitter End San Antonio, Texas

Shooters Cedar Park, Texas

Dr. Marsden with Kansas State University has advised us that

this is the first in a battery of tests being conducted by his labo-

ratory at KSU. The initial tests were performed on inoculated

stainless steel surfaces and showed an inactivation rate of

99+% for the H1N1 virus. He is anticipating completion of this

written report by no later than next week. This is the first step in

a larger research project being conducted by Kansas State Uni-

versity, whereby upon completion, we anticipate submitting the

final report to the FDA for product claim authorization and clear-

ance.

Meanwhile, RGF would like to clarify a few points to help all of

us in presenting truthful marketing and advertising claims on

this issue. RGF has always been adamant about not making

any sort of medical claims or misleading statements in our mar-

keting or advertising.

More recently, with the development of H1N1 Virus, the FDA

has issued a warning against companies marketing H1N1 Flu

Virus claims, which recently came to our attention. The FDA pro-

hibits companies who have not obtained prior authorization,

from promoting or marketing products that claim to diagnose,

mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure the H1N1 virus. They have gone

so far as checking company websites for language eluding to

this or similar language in conjunction with destroying the H1N1,

and has sent 50 warning letters to date. They also have the

power to refer violations to the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investi-

gations. The following companies are currently listed on the FDA

website for illegally marketing products with objectionable

claims regarding H1N1 Virus: AUV Eliminator, AirFree, AllerAir,

American Ultraviolet, Breathe More Easy, Cleanaer, Eliminator,

FlexAir PAPR, Sanuvox, UV Aire, Verilux.

In order to be proactive, (as we do not want to hear from theFDA or be added to their list,) we are requesting that should you

develop any ads on your own that refer to H1N1, please run it

by Sharon Rinehimer our in-house corporate attorney.

srinehimer@rgf.com

CAUTION New Test Results

Brochure

A new updated (with H1N1 test data) test

brochure is available. The new design con-

denses it to 4 pages! We ordered 200,000!!

Judge Sharon says... Please send me your draftads or marketing material!!

Infectious Diseases

Effect on Indoor Air

QualityBy Dr. James Marsden, Ronald G. Fink

and Walter Ellis

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is rapidly becoming a buzz word for

the HVAC contractor. Most people associate indoor air qual-

ity with air filtration, which is designed to remove airborne

particles. The problem is that standard air filters have little or

no effect on microbials such as viruses and bacterial, or

molds, VOC, odors and other health-related air contami-

nants.

IAQ got its start with the media rash of mold stories of the

1980s. Odor control was the buzz word of the 1990s, and

with the fears of SARS, Bird Flu, Norwalk, MRSA and H1N1

(Swine Flu), the 2000s will be the decades of infectious dis-

eases and control of bacteria and viruses.

Major hotel chains, hospitals, cruise lines, schools/colleges,

restaurant chains, property managers and major corpora-

tions are developing infectious diseases contingency plans.

It began with the Norwalk Virus on cruise ships and MRSA

in hospitals. The SARS Virus in China, and now the widely

feared H1N1 (Swine Flu). The concern is employee safety,

negative publicity, and of course, legal liability.

Most infectious disease contingency plans consist of the

multiple interventions concept, which consists of the utiliza-

tion of multiple disinfection technologies and procedures.

The cruise line industry had a serious problem with the Nor-

walk Virus a few years ago. Thousands of people were get-

ting infected. Their plan included:

• Rapid identification and isolation of the sick.

• Continuous disinfecting of handrails, door knobs and

banisters.

• Continuous UV disinfection of indoor air via the HVAC

ducts.

It was later discovered that standard HVAC UV systems

were not working as the dwell or contact time was not nearly

long enough. These were replaced with an Advanced Oxida-

tion technology. The problem with any HVAC UV air disin-

fection system is that the contaminated air has to travel a

long distance before the bacteria or viruses may or may not

be killed in the UV kill zone of the HVAC unit. Let’s say you

have a virus and you sneeze, anyone within six feet of you

will have been potentially exposed. The fact that the airborne

virus might or might not be killed in the UV air disinfection

system later is of no consequence. You have already been

exposed. This concept was discovered by Sandia National

Labs while working with RGF Environmental Group on a

homeland security project for a potential terrorist bio attack

on an airliner. In theory, a terrorist could aspirate a virus eas-

ily. No one would know until the next day after they have

traveled and spread the virus. This is how worldwide pan-

demics can get started.

The solution was to kill the virus at the source before it

reaches another person. The problem was how do you do

that? RGF Environmental Group has been working with Ad-

vanced Oxidation technology since the mid-1980s. RGF’s

Photohydroionization or PHI technology looked promising as

having the ability to kill an airborne virus within three feet.

The next problem was how do you validate the results? The

validation had to be a double-blind in a bio test chamber and

had to be repeatable. Now, how do you duplicate a sneeze?

No two people sneeze alike or not even the same person

could duplicate his or her own sneeze. A high-tech sneeze

machine was needed. Of course, there was no such thing,

so RGF developed one. When you sneeze, you evacuate

one lung of air volume. You expel about one gram of fluid at

about 100 miles per hour. RGF invented and built the world’s

first sneeze machine with controls for volume, fluid and

speed. Now it was possible to duplicate a sneeze allowing a

repeatable method of testing the effectiveness of RGF’s

Advanced Oxidation technologies.

A PHI Cell creates an airborne plasma basically consisting of

friendly oxidizers. Friendly being those found in nature that

return to oxygen and water after they oxidize, such as hy-

droperoxides. The process is like misting the air with an at-

omized or very fine mist of hydrogen peroxide. A series of

tests were conducted by Kansas State University, who also

works closely with Sandia National Labs. The first results

were outstanding with a kill rate of 78% of a sneeze at three

feet. A more advanced cell was later developed by RGF,

REME or Reflective Electro-Magnetic Energy, that

ionized the Advanced Oxidation plasma

making it far more effective on

a broader scope of contam-

inates. REME sneeze re-

sults showed 88%

reductions.

During the SARS scare a few

years ago, the Chinese Govern-

ment installed PHI™ Advanced

Oxidation Cells in city buses and

subways after determining it killed

the deadly SARS virus. A Chinese

manufacturer licensed PHI™

Technology for use on China’s buses and subways.

It is a normal reaction to question the long-term safety of any

product that is effective and uses new or “breakthrough”

3’

88% Reduction

RGF’s REME® Cell

Kill rate of virus and bacteria

Strep MRSA

Norwalk H1N1

Partial List of University Test Results

• Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)*

• Norwalk Virus*

• Pseudomonas Sp.*

• MRSA Bacteria*

• Listeria*

• E.coli*

• Staph*

• Strep*

• Stachybotrys chartarum*

• Candida*

• H1N1 Swine Flu*

* 99+% reduction on stainless steel surface in a Kansas

State University Class II Bio Chamber

In addition:• Formaldehyde 99+%

• Mold 97% to 98%

• Hydrogen Sulfide 80%

• Odors - pet, chemicals and human biological odors 55% to 98%

• Smoke 70%

• Particulate – ISO-Class 3

technology. This type of question has become common as

our litigious society has taught us to question things that sig-

nificantly outperform existing methods or products.

The breakthrough in the RGF Advanced Oxidation technolo-

gies is a group of oxidants known as Hydroperoxides. Hy-

droperoxides have been a common part of our environment

for over 3.5 billion years. Hydroperoxides are created in our

atmosphere whenever three components are present: oxy-

gen molecules, water vapor and energy (electro magnetic).

REME+™ also has the ability to super charge these hy-

droperoxides or ionize them into Ionized-Hydro-

Peroxides™.

Ionized-Hydro-Peroxides™ are very effective at destroying

harmful microbials in the air and on surfaces. As oxidants,

they do this by either destroying the microbe through a

process known as cell lysing or by changing its molecular

structure and rendering it harmless (which is typically the

case in VOC’s and odors). The amount of hydroperoxides

required to accomplish this task in a conditioned space is

below the level that is constantly in our outside air. The Ad-

vanced Oxidation technology has brought the oxidants found

in the outside air into the indoor conditioned air. One of the

best features of Ionized-Hydro-Peroxides™ is that as they

settle out of the air, they disinfect surfaces. This was vali-

dated in a Kansas State University Bio Chamber on stainless

steel surfaces, resulting in a 99+% kill on numerous viruses

and bacteria.

There is no known case of hydroperoxides ever creating a

health risk. Considering we have been exposed to hydroper-

oxides in nature since the day man stepped on the planet, it

is a reasonable assumption that hydroperoxides do not con-

stitute a health risk. Over the past 25 years, RGF has more

than one million Advanced Oxidation products have been

successfully used worldwide without a safety problem.

The World’s first Sneeze Machine

Typical Installation in HVAC system

REME™ Cell

AC Coil

Vent

Blower

Filter

Advanced Oxidation PlasmaAdvanced Oxidation Plasma

Authors:Dr. James Marsden Regents Professor at Kansas State University,

who has conducted research on Advanced Oxidation Technology for the

past 15 years. He has authored numerous articles and holds many

patents

Ron Fink President, CEO, Founder of RGF Environmental Group, Inc.

Mr. Fink holds a BSME and has been active in Nuclear Weapon detection

for the DIA and Nuclear Power. He holds numerous patents and authored

over 70 articles.

RGF Environmental Group, Inc. founded in 1985 manufactures over 500

products involving Advanced Oxidation Technology.

Walter Ellis Vice President Research & Development, RGF Environ-

mental Group. BS Degree in Biology & Marine Biology. Mr. Ellis is a spe-

cialist in Advanced Oxidation. He has authored several published

technical papers and has numerous patents.

We’re Still Looking For

A Few Good PeopleWhat Recession?!• Regional HVAC PHI Managers

• Commercial HVAC PHI/REME

System Integrators

• Web Site Marketing

Send resumes to Louise Melillo

lmelillo@rgf.com

See page 2 for more

RGF Products are Made In America

Rene Luna, Manufacturers Rep for Louisiana,

was approached by the Army Corps of Engineers. They

were looking to improve Air Quality in their facilities, and

Rene helped design an application solution of 75 REME

units installed in the HVAC system around the facility.

New Stars on the RGF Map

MSI in Las Vegas, NV

R&E Little Rock, AR

Century Supply Dallas, TX

St. Helena HospitalSt. Helena Hospital of St. Helena California is another on

the list of happy & safe hospitals using Guardian Air PHI

to reduce infectious disease spread.

Great Job!

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Another Satisfied

Guardian Air

CustomerSteve Brandon, of The Excelsior

Condominium in Boca Raton,

Florida sent us this letter recently to

let us know how pleased he and his

residents were with the Guardian

Air systems installed there. Having

done installations of this type in the

past, RGF technicians know it is not

always the easiest thing to please

multiple residents in these types of

facilities. However, from Steve’s

own words, we obviously have

made a hit. Not to mention the

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The Deslimer™HVAC Drain Service Tool eliminates risks and reduces costs associated with blocked condensate drains.

RGF Environmental Group. Inc. has introduced another first-of-its-kind product for the HVAC industry. In

consultation with a local HVAC contractor, RGF has developed the Deslimer™HVAC Drain Service Tool. The

Deslimer™, a dual action condensate drain pump, eliminates endlessly sucking on blocked drains with shop

vacuums and the cost associated with motor burn outs, nitrogen bottles and refills. Designed to break the

bond of the microbial build-up, the Deslimer™ quickly and easily clears blocked condensate drains in min-

utes.

Each year blocked condensate drains are responsible for thousands of dollars in damage due to overflow

of condensate water onto surrounding dry wall, fittings and fixtures. The options until now have been

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The Deslimer™ is constructed of durable aluminum with minimal moving parts. Limited lifetime war-

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