Toronto Star reports that Senco's Model One passed controversial
carbon monoxide tests
VANCOUVER, March 10 /CNW/ - Senco Sensors Inc.
Trading Symbol: SSZ.V
The Toronto Star has reported that Senco's Model One has passed a series
of tests conducted by an independent consultant at Seneca College in Toronto.
Preliminary results of the controversial tests made national news last week
when CTV reported that more than half of the 26 models tested (81%) failed to
pass new standards set by the Canadian Standards Association.
In the Toronto Star article, Jim Mackie, an independent fuels safety
consultant who arranged the Seneca College tests and earlier tests for the
news program W5, comments on the results of the tests and recommends Senco's
Model One as one of the best available. He also urges homeowners to buy CO
detectors now, rather than waiting.
On Monday, CTV national news reported that following a two year study,
the Gas Research Institute in the United States has recommended the recall of
several brands of carbon monoxide detectors and that the US Product Safety
Commission may do its own testing of carbon monoxide detectors. Senco's Model
One was not one of the products tested by the Gas Research Institute.
In December, an investigative report on the effectiveness of popular
carbon monoxide detectors, aired nationally in Canada on the television
program W5. The report also ranked Senco's Model One its one of the best CO
detectors available.
W5 tested 12 of the most popular detectors on the market and found four
didn't go off when exposed to 100 parts per million of carbon monoxide (the
old standard) and five didn't go off at 70 parts per million (the new
standard).
In Brampton, Ontario, where there have been several carbon
monoxide-related deaths. Fire and Emergency Services officials tested 27 CO
detectors last fall. They ranked Senco's Model One as the best available. As
a result, Brampton Fire Services and Brampton Hydro are now marketing Senco's
Model One directly to the public.
''Senco's Model One has been a top performer in all of these tests,''
says Senco's President and CEO, Nasim Tyab. ''Where others have failed, we
have demonstrated time and time again, that our detector offers the
reliability and accuracy that both fire officials and the public want in a
life-safety product.''
The Model One detector features an electrochemical sensor developed in
Canada. It has a digital read-out with audible alarm and reliable detection
of CO levels down to 20 parts per million. This level of accuracy will
provide homeowners with an added measure of safety by alerting them to the
presence of CO before dangerous levels are reached.
According to the Canada Safety Council, some 200 people are killed each
year in Canada by CO poisoning, with approximately 1,500 others suffering
serious injuries. Senco Sensors Inc. is dedicated to becoming a major
manufacturer of quality residential carbon monoxide detectors.
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