Category Archives: Government Documentation
Addressing Mold Research
EPA, HHS, and HUD officials reported that 75 percent of their mold research activities address at least one of five particular data gaps-three of which relate to asthma, and two of which relate to sampling and measurement methods. These five … Continue reading
Mold Problems SIDE BY SIDE with VOC
Contributing to limitations in the understanding of the relationship between mold and a number of adverse health effects is the variety of potential disease-causing agents-including many species of mold and other biological agents, such as bacteria or dust mites-that are … Continue reading
Mold Exposure Symptoms
The 2004 Institute of Medicine report, Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, found sufficient evidence of an association between exposure to indoor mold and certain adverse health effects-that is, an association between the agent and the outcome has been observed in … Continue reading
Mold Disease
Several components and products of mold may cause disease. Mold grows as a mass of microscopic filaments, fragments of which may cause adverse health effects. In addition, the spores that mold releases to reproduce, along with certain components of mold’s … Continue reading