Letter to Mothers and Others

[Guest guest]

I enjoyed Mindy Pennybacker's article " The Ghettoization of Asthma " and

would love to see you tackle the issue of the politics of indoor air

quality. Despite overwhelming evidence of toxins causing serious physical

harm, expecially toxic molds, our government agencies charged with the task

of preventing them have laid down and died....even going so far in the case

of NIOSH to refute research on the hazards of stachybotrus.

Now, portable classrooms are at the center of controversy as more and more

children develop asthma, chronic fatigue and continuous respiratory

infections.

Parents need to know that very serious health consequences can result from

continuous exposure to these toxins. Schools that do not perform timely

HVAC and roof leak maintenance are asking for trouble. Several schools were

so badly contaminated, they had to be torn down. Broward County Florida

just spent millions in an attempt to rid their schools of toxic molds. We

can't keep turning a blind eye while a whole generaton of school children

are poisoned.

Barbara Herskovitz

Moderator,

Sick buildings Digest

(Mothers & Others, a national nonprofit education organization, works to

promote consumer choices which are safe and ecologically sustainable for

this generation and the next. By providing strategies that can reduce

individual and community consumption of natural resources, and by mobilizing

consumers to seek sustainable choices, we aim to effect lasting protection

of public health and the environment. )