WIX Cabin Air Filter with BioShield 75

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WIX Cabin Air Filter w/ BioShield 75:

A new, technologically-advanced cabin air filter can improve the air quality inside passenger cars and trucks. Featuring the EPA-approved BioShield® 75 technology, WIX Filters Cabin Air Filters capture and eliminate odor-causing bacteria, fungi and algae to create a car interior that is virtually free of outside allergens. Cabin air filters, introduced to passenger cars and trucks in the early 1990s, filter pollutants such as dust, soot and gas before it enters the car's interior; the added BioShield® 75 technology also filters out allergens with an invisible microbiostatic coating that becomes part of the filter fiber, polymerizing and standing up like microscopic spikes. More than 80 percent of cars manufactured today have cabin air filters, but most car owners don't know if their car has the added feature; check with your automotive dealer or technician to see if your cabin air filter needs replacement, which is recommended every 12-15,000 miles.

What is BioShield® 75?
BioShield® 75 is a patented, EPA registered and USDA accepted product that prevents the growth of an amazingly wide array of bacteria, mold, mildew, algae and yeast. BioShield® 75 acts as a bed of microscopic spikes that pierce the cell walls of microbes to provide long lasting antimicrobial protection. In addition to effectively inhibiting the growth of mold, mildew, algae and bacteria, BioShield® 75 protects against deterioration, discoloration and odor. BioShield® 75 has been utilized in the automotive, medical, hospitality, health club and athletics industries because of its proven effectiveness and durability.

BioShield®75 is unique. One end of its molecule creates a strong bond with a multitude of surfaces, porous and non-porous, forming a high durable protective coating. The other end of the microbes like a bed of nails. BioShield®75 physically ruptures the cell walls of these microbes, without the use of poisons. Since BioShield®75's methodology is physical instead of chemical, it does not create "superbugs" like MRSA, which are microbes that build up a resistance to treatment.

BioShield®75's molecular spikes are long chains of atoms that are large enough to pierce the cell walls of various microbes. Being only about one thousandth the diameter of a human hair, they are too small to harm large cells in mammals. These chains of atoms carry a strong positive charge that attracts negatively charged bacteria. BioShield®75 has been found in independent testing to be effective against a wide array of microbes, including Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, various Salmonella strains, black mold, athlete's foot, Influenza A, skin infections, and others.

What benefits does BioShield® 75 bring to WIX Filters?
When applied to cabin air filters, BioShield® 75 traps and eliminates harmful microbes in the filter medium and reduces the opportunity for those microbes to be released into the air breathed by automobile occupants. Unlike other cabin air filter enhancements in the marketplace such as charcoal or baking soda, which simply absorb odors, BioShield® 75’s invisible microbiostatic coating becomes part of the filter fiber, polymerizing and standing up like microscopic spikes – 1,000 spikes of protection per the width of a hair – that pierce the cell walls of microbes, virtually eliminating microbials.