Archive for ◊ March, 2010 ◊

• Sunday, March 28th, 2010

17 Types Found Include:
Alternaria
Aphanocladium
Aspergillus fumigatus
Aspergillus niger
Aspergillus ochraceus
Aspergillus versicolor
Bipolaris
Blakeslea
Curvularia
Engyodontium
Fusarium
Memnoniella
Nigrospora
Non-sporulating fungi
Penicillium
Stachybotrys chartarum
Trichoderma

• Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Catastrophic Brain Injury From Mold
While the victim’s (Steve White) injury was significant and traumatic, the jury decided that in this case there was no credible evidence to support his claim of “Allergic Fungal Sinusitis.”

Lawyers need not despair for the category of mold/environmental case law , however, because contributing to the loss of this particular case was testimony of the victim’s former girlfriend who referred to the victim’s eviction from a former apartment after he created a dangerous condition from mold from his own fish tank.

Timeline
First came the victim’s toxic mold exposure from his apartment in the Simi Valley apartment complex, then he contracted allergic fungal sinusitis from which he developed a brain abscess, leading to permanent neurological damage. On January 9, 2005, the victim had emergency surgery to treat his condition and the law suit was filed on June 30.

Catastrophic injury from alleged mold exposure is difficult to prove. The problem is in proving causation between mold and illness. There is no one disease exclusively linked to mold, and mold exposure symptoms tend to occur only in its presence and tend to disappear at the end of exposure, although it sometimes incurs lasting effects.

If this is your situation too, and you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

• Monday, March 15th, 2010

Monday, Mayor Brown is making public the final report of the air quality analysis which found that the Precinct building’s air quality met most guidelines.

The 90 page report is available as a .pdf online.

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• Saturday, March 13th, 2010

In an article, the mold problem in the Buffalo Police precinct was debunked.

They say “Black mold was found on the walls in the building, but not in air samples” and that …” that air quality is not being negatively impacted by mold found in the ceiling.”

Don’t you just love “politicalspeak?”

The mayor even says “even though there was no “evidence of fungi found in the building”, officers will be kept out of the building until further notice.”

That’s smart, because the mayor knows–or surely his mold experts told him–what goes up must come down. Or to put it specifically, give it some time and it will be in the air.

Either the mold will continue its life cycle and give off spores normally, or dust will happen, some of it originating from the mold, or aggressive procedures will be taken (hopefully with remediators wearing hazmat), and that mold is going to be in the air.

There’s a REASON that officers will be kept out of the building until further notice.

If this is your situation too, and you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

• Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

Whether a mold related toxic tort case is work based, product based, or environmentally based, historically they have been difficult to prove. But the symptoms of mold exposure like memory loss, allergies, and breathing difficulties don’t care that the case is hard to prove in court. The negative aspects of mold, and the potentially fatal dangers that it poses to infants and individuals with weak immune systems happen anyway. You’d think it would be easier to prove that mold is dangerous, that the individual was exposed to it, and it caused harm. In any case, before you set out to establish a mold case, you need documentation of conditions, concentration and type.

If this is your situation too, and you’re in California, you might want to give us a call and see about getting an assessment from Byebyemold.

• Tuesday, March 09th, 2010


Peoria’s Desert Harbor Elementary stinks of mold though they say mold was never seen. It’s actually been found by a mold inspector, and identified as Aspergillus Penicillium.

Heres a candid shot of it’s first cousin, Aspergillus :

How’d you like to send your child to a school that smells of mold and is infested with that?

Of course, its only harmful if allergic or have a weakened immune system.

As a parent, I can only say…EXCUSE ME? Are you ASKING for the kids to develop allergies and get sick? Over exposure is how it happens!

• Sunday, March 07th, 2010

In our day and time, a topic has never really arrived until it has hit the silver screen, and it appears that now mold has arrived. No, no one has done a remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes with mold as the rampaging overgrowth, but mold indeed figures in a movie entitled Brooklyn’s Finest.

Mold figures predominantly in one of the primary character’s lives.

Liv Taylor is pregnant with twins, and her obstetrician warns her that she is endangering her pregnancy as long as she lives in a mold-infested residence. Perhaps someone should have told her to call Byebyemold to verify his diagnosis.

Yes, it is true, the evil in the movie clip below is a tomato evil, not a mold evil. But one can surely watch it and imagine the day when mold, too, will have a starring role in a film.

So, even though the government and science don’t have their act together where mold is concerned, apparently the director of Brooklyn’s Finest, Antoine Fuqua, does.