Re: toxic mold la

[Guest guest]

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Go to the EmLab web store at:

http://www.emlab.com/app/store/Store.po

They have a couple of different pumps for the cassettes plus other

supplies.

Same for Aerotech P & K at: http://products.aerotechpk.com/

EmLab also has training at their Mold University. It's techinical

so check with them first to see if that's what you really want.

They are in southern California so that helps.

There are many resouces that are not the fast & cheap places that

" sell, sell, sell " by pandering to the fears of consumers. The

ultimate cost is beyond the $ and time lost.

BTW, I was talking with one of the labs today at the conference

and he asked me if I frequently get higher readings from culture

plates than I do from the cassettes (it is assumed to be the

opposite). He then proceeded to tell me why. No one else has

acknowledged this anomoly before and I was very appreciative of

once again gaining more knowledge and confirmation of what I've

been seeing for years of testing.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Carl,

Thank you for your very informative response. I am so appreciative

of your

help with this.

I agree with you that testing has its limitations.

Air sampling by professionals in my last 3 dwellings did help

guide me in

making certain decisions. I think for my particular situation,

learning to

use these cassettes for myself is the best way to go. This is

something that I

knew sooner or later I would need to do and hoped that it would

be later or

not at all. And yes, from everything I know in microscopic

evaluation, it is

the quality of the lab used that will help to determine the

accuracy of the

slide.

If I purchase the cassettes from Zefon, do you know where I could

purchase

the pump? Do you think that I would be able to figure out how to

calibrate

this on my own? I am looking into a course I could take that

would help with

this. I am going to run a search of this for Los Angeles and the

cost,

however, I need to move quickly.

With gratitude,

Bobbins, RN, L.Ac, QME

In a message dated 10/24/2006 12:00:47 PM Central Standard Time,

grimes@... writes:

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Air-O-Cell cassettes are made by Zefon www.zefon.com. Allergenco

has

a similar product and there are a couple of others. Also check

out

the new Web site by Ian Cull at _http://www.iaqcompahttp://www._

(http://www.iaqcomparisons.com/) for a

review by an expert on this and other products.

[Guest guest]

Carl, would it be too lengthy to share with us why there are higher

readings in culture plates? Could it be that a mold spore in culture

plate could 'sporalate' and create more colonies inside the culture

plate while it incubates? Something I have considered with one sample

I collected once.

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> Go to the EmLab web store at:

> http://www.emlab.com/app/store/Store.po

> They have a couple of different pumps for the cassettes plus other

> supplies.

>

> Same for Aerotech P & K at: http://products.aerotechpk.com/

>