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Toxic Home Syndrome

Toxic Home Syndrome

Toxic Home Syndrome: How The Air in Your Home Could Be Making You Ill The air within your home may be increasing your risk of heart disease, asthma and cancer. Do You Have Toxic Home Syndrome?  Toxic Home Syndrome is the residential counterpart to Sick Building Syndrome and it occurs […]

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6 Easy Steps to Prevent Bathroom Mold

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February 21, 2015

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Air Quality Tips, allergies, Mold

6 Easy Steps to Prevent Bathroom Mold

6 Easy Steps to Prevent Bathroom Mold The bathroom is arguably the room within your home that harbors the highest moisture levels and provides the most nutrient rich environment for mold growth.  Just keeping the bathroom clean is chore enough on its own.  But, is simply keeping it tidy enough […]

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8 Reasons to Have Your Indoor Air Quality Tested

8 Reasons to Have Your Indoor Air Quality Tested

The air we breathe is vital to our existence, but a variety of different pollutants may be present, both indoors and out, that can impact our health, safety and comfort. Studies are showing that we are spending more and more time indoors, while we often don’t even consider what might be […]

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Mold in your air

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March 17, 2014

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Mold

Mold is the leading cause of allergy symptoms which could result in serious health conditions such as emphysema, asthma and even death. Symptoms can develop, and health concerns can arise, even when mold spores are inhaled in small amounts. Mold is opportunistic. It will take advantage of every opportunity to […]

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Exposure limit for fungal spores?

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April 23, 2012

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health effects, Mold

I was doing some reading today and I came across a paper looking at the dose-response relationship between fungal spores and various health effects. Here is a quote from their conclusions: “In conclusion, the combined evidence from human challenge and epidemiological studies support fairly consistent LOELs [lowest observed effect levels] of approximately [100,000] spores/m3 for […]

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