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“Aerosol smoke products are designed to simply provide a functional "go-no-go" test of smoke alarms and
smoke detectors. . . . This product is not, in any way, designed to provide a sensitivity test of the smoke
alarm or smoke detector because it administers an unmeasured quantity of aerosol to the device.

This test only provides a convenient method of determining if the smoke alarm or detector is
sufficiently clear of debris to allow smoke to enter the sensing chamber.”

NFPA - False and Potentially Deadly Advertisements

Aerosol Smoke Detector Testers
December, 1998

Arthur E Cote P.E., NFPA Senior V.P. & Chief Engineer Operations, 15 March 1999, page 4, para 3.

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Are aerosol smoke alarm/detector testers perpetrating the ionization smoke alarm/detector fraud?

In correspondence between, Richard M Patton, Fire Protection Engineer, Crusade Against Fire Deaths Inc,

and the NFPA’s Chief Engineer of Operations and Senior Vice President, Arthur E Cote, Patton claims that

“false and potentially deadly advertisements'” are used in the promotion of aerosol smoke detector testers.

“When spraying the cloud into the detection chamber, the consumer will assume that the spray is reasonably
similar to the smoke likely to be produced by a fire in the home. More often than not, it is not.”

Richard M Patton, Fire Protection Engineer, Crusade Against Fire Deaths Inc. 17 Dec, 1998page 2, para 7.

Why Is Smoke Detector Tester™ a Sure Way to Test Smoke Alarms?

“When your alarm sounds during aerosol testing you will know you can depend on it to
operate as it was intended. Plus, it is UL Listed and alarm manufacturer approved.”
www.homesafeguard.com/faq.htm

Are aerosol smoke detector testers sold, as claimed by the NFPA, to determine:

“if the smoke alarm or detector is sufficiently clear of debris”? Or, are they are sold
as a means of checking that smoke alarms/detectors will safely detect smoke?

False & Potentially

Deadly Advertisements

Is advertising about aerosol

smoke alarm testers misleading?

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