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August 16, 2006 Measuring Baseline IEQ Conditions   Volume 1 Issue 228  
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Measuring Baseline IEQ Conditions
by Facilities Safety Management Magazine

August, 2006 -- For more than 20 years, health problems stemming from building-related biological and non-biological materials have been on the rise, yet indoor air quality professionals and consumers have lacked a starting point by which to compare bacterial and fungal bioaerosol results in a presently unregulated industry. Until now.
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Mold invades Milton Elementary
by Lauren Ober, Free Press Staff Writer

MILTON -- After years of battling sweltering rooms in the spring and summer, Milton Elementary School is faced with a new, growing problem: mold.
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Mold, leaks plague 51-year-old courthouse jail
by Vickie Welborn, shreveporttimes.com

ARCADIA -- Mold that appears to be clinging to an air conditioner vent in a secretary's office. Leaks that have ruined walls, ceiling tiles, carpet and flooded an evidence vault.

It's all become too frustrating to Bienville Parish Sheriff John Ballance who on Wednesday received a glimmer of hope from Bienville Parish police jurors in the form of an agreement to explore the construction of a new, larger detention center.
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Family flees 'house of horrors'
Faces bankruptcy after they discover recently purchased Stony Plain home infected with toxic levels of black mould
by Richard Warnica, The Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON - A Stony Plain family is facing financial ruin after they unknowingly bought a house infected with toxic levels of black mould.
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Farm Hit Hard By Milk Recall
by WRAL.com

ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. -- Maple View Farm is pulling a week's supply of milk off the market and dumping it. More than 7,000 gallons -- $30,000 worth -- of milk is going down the drain after cows at the farm ate corn that was tainted with a potentially harmful toxin.
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Are FEMA trailers ‘toxic tin cans’?
by Mike Brunker, Projects editor - MSNBC

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — For nearly a year now, the ubiquitous FEMA trailer has sheltered tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents left homeless by Hurricane Katrina. But there is growing concern that even as it staved off the elements, it was exposing its inhabitants to a toxic gas that could pose both immediate and long-term health risks.
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Health and safety laws should not be ignored
by SecurityPark.net

Gillian Beckingham, the Barrow in Furness architect, has been fined £15,000 for her role in Britain’s worst ever outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease. Barrow Council also faces £125,000 of fines for similar charges.
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Lawsuits Filed by Post-Katrina Construction Workers
by Ed Gordon, NPR

News & Notes with Ed Gordon, July 17, 2006 · Construction workers in New Orleans claim they were exploited in the months after Katrina, and have filed related lawsuits.
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Mesothelioma is a cancer most often associated with which indoor environmental pollutant?

A) Fungi

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C) Fiberglass

D) Asbestos

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