Intercourse with IEQ

[Guest guest]

If we wish to connect our wealth of experience with IEQ's technical

standards in a meaningful way, our comments must be reasonable,

credible, and based upon something more than speculation and

accidentaly misuse of technical terms.

I was laboring under the misperception that a volatile toxic gas

such as trimethylarsine from " emerald green " or " Scheele's green "

arsenic based pigments in wallpaper would constitute a " mycotoxin " .

Our discussion on IEQ indicates that toxicity is not the

determining factor in this classification, and that despite

culpability in a great number illnesses and deaths, trimethylarsine

would be correctly termed a " Fungal toxin " instead of a " mycotoxin " .

Mycotoxins are strictly defined as secondary metabolites to

separate them from fungal by-products and mVOC's - toxicity

notwithstanding.

Trimethylarsine would qualify as a mycotoxin ONLY if the process

was conducted by the same fungal mechanism which reconfigures

substrate into purposeful chemical ecologic metabolites intended to

combat competing microorganisms in the environment.

If a toxic volatile has not been demonstrated as being constructed

for purposes secondary to functions which only sustain viability of

the organism, it would be mycotoxicologically more accurate to refer

to this as a nonspecific " fungal toxin " until proven otherwise.

- (meaning #1, of course)

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