Mold news 2007-12

2007-12-13 Got mold Try these tips to a healthier home - Home and Garden

Cleaning mold and mildew requires some specialty products that go far beyond just chlorine bleach. While bleach can kill Ebola, its not an effective mildew and mold cleaner on porous surfaces. A home mold cleaning kit called Mold Control ( ), priced at around usd. 30, is very effective. Its the same formula used by many professional mold removal companies in homes, hospitals and institutions. Mold Off mildew and mold cleaner was developed for marine applications, and as any boater will tell you, there is plenty of mildew and mold around the water. Its a non-bleach, biodegradable product that is very effective in cleaning and inhibiting future growth. ( ) DampRid Mildew and Mold Blocker is readily available at hardware stores and home centers and works great on both hard and porous surfaces and

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TODAY home contributor Lou Manfredini offers advice to get control over the harmful growth.

2008-01-04 FEMA Trailer Residents on Gulf Coast Being Poisoned by Toxic Black Mold and Formaldehyde

Hopefully, the agencys response to the black mold problems in its trailers will be an improvement over its response to the toxic FEMA trailers formaldehyde issues. In 2006, FEMA workers along the Gulf Coast alerted the agency to possible problems with air quality in the trailers. But e-mails uncovered during a congressional investigation into the trailers showed that FEMA lawyers told the agency to drag its feet on air quality testing. On , one FEMA lawyer advised the agency do not initiate any testing until we give the OK. . . Once you get the results and should they indicate a problem, the clock is running on our duty to respond to them. A day later, FEMAs Office of General Council advised an agency employee not to test the trailers because doing so would imply FEMAs ownership of the issue.

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2007-12-21 The Daily Advertiser Lafayette, LA

Why didnt the board react this strongly to the mold problem at Plantation where children were getting sick from mold It took months for the school system to run the first lame (bogus) air quality test, then another month for them to do thorough testing (after an independent study found definite evidence of mold). Then there were platitudes, and excuses, and experts brought in to refute what parents knew. that their kids were getting sick from the school. Now they want to close Moss because they fear there might be mold, even though their lame air quality test are clear Go figure.

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2007-12-24 Fungus a homegrown conflict

The tenant, Kathryn Remington, 51, said moldy conditions in her apartment have given her migraine headaches and made her cough up blood. She has sent spore samples to be tested at a laboratory and grown seven different fungi in petri dishes, including some reputedly toxic molds. She has extensively photographed the problem and has been prescribed antibiotics for mold-related illness by two doctors.

Remington displays a cultured sample of mold that she said was gathered from an air vent in her kitchen. She said she spent nearly usd. 145 to have a lab test the sample, which she said tested positive for harmful black molds. Mold specialists have found nothing unusual in Remingtons apartment.

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2007-12-04 Albany Panel to Assess Health Risks of Mold - New York Times

Think of mold, one expert on the subject explained, as a weed. They are both equally ubiquitous: A little bit of mold grows everywhere, indoors and outdoors, year round, primarily in warm, dark and damp locations. There are thousands of different types of mold, but the one that has received the most attention from the media and health officials in recent years is Stachybotrys chartarum, a green-black mold that produces what are known as mycotoxins and is often referred to as toxic mold.

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It is the scourge of tenants, landlords and homeowners alike, and now, state officials and Gov. Eliot Spitzer are getting serious about mold. - Mold Albany (NY) Housing Medicine and Health

2007-12-12 International Analyst Network

But my contempt for this theological arrogance does not render a hatred for, or suspicion of, Muslims as individuals or as a people; nor will it, nor should it. I have a fair amount of Muslim friends, some of them very good friends, and, in the mold of Dr. King and rsquo;s litmus test, I judge them, like everyone else, based upon the content of their character and ndash; and ndash; not their genetic makeup. This is not racism anymore than disdain for Marxism is racism; anymore than abstract anticommunism undermines the concreteness of a beautiful Cuban girl, or the sincerity of a Russian acquaintance, for instance.

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2007-12-08 KXII - HomePage Local News, Weather, Sports, Severe Weather, and Breaking News Coverage for Sherman TX, Denison TX, Ardmore OK, Durant OK, Ada OK

If the school was truely cleaning up the mold that would be one thing, but they are not, and as a person who is in the school on a weekly basis, you notice that there are several students as well as educators who have developed cancer while teaching and attending this school. The school has spent more time covering it up and threatening the teachers than to really address the problem. Each student and educator should be allowed to attend a school without worring about their immediate health, and any longterm health effects it will cause by mold being in the school. Another question, why are the teachers not allowed to speak of the mold Why have the other schools in the district not been notified of the potential problem in the k-3 Elementary building. Ask any teacher in the other schools in the system if they know about

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2008-01-04 OpinionJournal - Potomac Watch

The Republican coalition has also had its long share of stress between its cultural and more libertarian factions. That tension flared most brightly under Pat Buchanan, with his fiery call to abandon globalization and revert to a blend of cultural conservatism and economic populism. Yet the coalition endured. Mike Huckabee is the latest (if subtler) incarnation of this, and Mr. Rollins has every reason to offer a premature Reagan-coalition surrender, since his guy doesnt fit the mold. Then again, Mr. Huckabees dipping poll numbers in recent weeks suggest that as Republican voters learn about him, they may not like what they see.

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2007-12-23 Amador Ledger Dispatch

After the contractor discovered the moisture and school staff implemented the temporary solution, staff called the county environmental health department. Environmental Health Specialist Scott Meyer visited the site Nov. 7 and released a letter Nov. 9 stating that mold was present under the floor surface. Included in his report was a list of recommended companies that test for and provide solutions to mold problems.

Israel added that, "based on the observations of this department and the result of the fungal investigation report, there is currently no emergency and no cause to vacate the school at this time. Additional analysis may be warranted in the event of significant changes in environmental conditions or illness complaints. Until such time that the vinyl flooring and adhesive are removed pursuant to the recommendations in the report, it is recommended that the flooring be left intact to minimize potential exposure to the mold. "

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2007-12-25 San Bernardino County Sun - Water worries

Ben Kollmeyer of Forensic Analytical Consulting Services, which conducted the December test, said after a visual inspection, moisture readings in the walls and analysis of air samples, it was determined that the indoor air was comparable to the outdoor air and the mold spore count was normal.

According to Larry Wilkie, director of risk management for Fontana Unified, the school district has responded to concerns by cleaning the duct system and air conditioner and removing the carpeting. The district also conducted two mold tests, one in October and another this month.

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