Summary
Rats breathed aerosolized slightly acidic electrolyzed water (about 0.20 mg/L airborne chlorine, 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, 3 months). The paper reports no adverse effects on body weight, intake, organ function or histology; the E. coli kill is shown, not a virus kill.
Key points
- Design: Animal (rat) plus in vitro. Does not establish safety in people.
- Funding: industry. Supported by Local Power Co., Ltd. and an Akita Prefecture grant; three authors work for the company, which supplied the product. University researchers ran the animal work.
- Added from the October 2026 literature sweep, from the abstract; curators to check against the full text.