Guest guest Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 All: For those of you who receive the IAQA Digest, there was an article from the Cape Cod Times <http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/clearingthe1.htm> about a sick school in MA that quoted me as saying " I inspected a home on the Cape that had the highest concentration of one type of toxic mold ever recorded. " This is not quite what I said. The home had Aspergillus ochraceus growing in the heating-system ducts and the concentration of ochratoxin-A in one duct dust sample was the highest ever measured in a dust sample at that time, 1,500 ppb (see: The Occurrence of ochratoxin A in dust collected from a problem household, J.L. et al., Mycopathologia 146: 99-103, 1999.) We did not detect the mycotoxin in a " dust bunny " from the refrigerator coil, which would have been an " historical " bulk sample. Aspergillus growth is very common (especially on the bottoms of furniture) in musty-smelling, intermittently-occupied homes on the Cape. C. May May Indoor Air Investigations LLC 1522 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02139 www.mayindoorair.com www.myhouseiskillingme.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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