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July 19, 2005 IAQ Guidelines for Assessment of Residential and Commercial Buildings   Volume 1 Issue 167  
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Air Quality Guidelines Established for Microbiological Assessment of Residential and Commercial Buildings
by HarrisMartin Publishing

For more than 20 years, building-related health problems due to the biological and non-biological materials intermittently emitted from potential environmental sources has emerged as a growing concern. The major issue: The quality, or lack thereof, of the indoor environment.

 
Another Insurer Raises Its Rates
Nationwide, which covers about 300,000 homes in Florida, is the latest to win state approval for a double-digit jump.
By: Jeff Harrington, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer

Nationwide Insurance has won state approval to raise its rates an average of 21 percent on homeowners' policies and 25 percent for mobile homes.
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Suing Bad Builders Now Harder
By: Issac J. Bailey, MyrtleBeachOnline.com

Homes along the Grand Strand are selling at a record pace - an average of 85 days for single-family homes and a lightning-fast 11 days for condominiums.

No one knows when the market will cool down, but one thing is for certain: New homeowners have a much shorter window than previous homeowners to discover whether the builder did not do a fine job building their home.
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Jackson County Examines Ideas For Mold Cleanup
By: Kristen Cates, The Southern

MURPHYSBORO - All signs indicate there is toxic mold in the basement of the Jackson County courthouse. Now, county officials are faced with the task of figuring out how to remove it, a process they learned won't be cheap.

During a building and grounds committee meeting Monday, county board members were bombarded with ideas from different mold disposal companies.


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Realtors Join in Effort to Stop Mold
By: RISMEDIA

A new public education campaign by the National Center for Housing and the Environment (NCHE) and supported by the National Association of Realtors aims to help the public become more informed and smarter about mold. It's a common problem homeowners face.
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NIH Finds Ethics Violations in 44 Cases
By: CNN.com

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forty-four government scientists who also worked as consultants for drug companies violated agency regulations designed to prevent conflicts of interest, a review by the National Institutes of Health shows.

The review centered on whether the scientists had properly disclosed their work for the drug companies on financial disclosure forms, whether they had prior approval to do such work from their superiors and whether they took personal leave to do private work. In the 44 cases, scientists were found to have violated one or more existing NIH rules.
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Which airborne particle doesn’t cause allergic asthma?

A.) Mold spores

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