Thursday, April 1, 2004

WZZM13 News Coverage

Trying the Odor Eliminator

Grand Rapids, MI -- If some of the smells in your home are leaving your breathless, there maybe a solution. I put a new product to the test that claims it will do more than cover up the odor.

As a vet, Dr. Karyl Ropko knows unpleasant odors are part of the territory.

She put some stinky smells together to help me test the Odor Eliminator. Dr. Ropko says, "We've collected a few samples because it's hard to get a pet to go on the carpet on command. So we've got some dog urine and some cat urine."

Ropko added an equal amount of dog and cat urine to each new carpet patch. Kim says "I can smell it already."

Then we had two sets of noses smell the carpet "before" the products.

The company, Petrotech, claims their product will get rid of the smell with a new technology that actually closes in on the molecules and eats the odor.

We compared Odor Eliminator to the product Dr. Ropko's clinic sells, Nature's Miracle. Then we added an average household product like Fantastic.

After the products were used on the urine-laced carpet, the smellers actually liked the Fantastic better. It left a clean smell. But it covered up the urine with a different smell.

But Dr. Ropko warned their noses have been tricked. Ropko says,"It probably covered up that urine pretty well and diluted it down but probabaly didn't get to the root of the odor source. So is it going come back.. it very well could with the fantastic."

She was more impressed with the Odor Eliminator. Ropko says,"It's promising."

It did not improve the carpet smell but it did get rid of the odor dogs and cats leave behind.
Sixteen ounces of Odor Eliminator costs $13 and can be found at www.Sea-Yu.com. Right now it's only being sold locally at V-I Pets IN Zeeland. It also comes in a mist and makers say it even works on skunk.

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