Creating a healthy home for your family starts with 1st Identifying Potential Allergens/Molds
by TransworldNews-Top Story
Atlanta, GA-- You want your home to be a safe haven for your family, free from the air quality problems found in the outside environment. But are you really sure the air inside your home is clean?
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KDHE Offers Advice On Post-Flood Mold Cleanup
by Kansas Department Of Health, emaxhealth.com
Kansas Department of Health and Environment is providing recommendations for controlling mold after storms and flooding.It is important for property owners to clean up in a way that eliminates mold growth as much as possible. Exposure to mold can lead to allergic reactions, asthma and other problems with breathing. Mold can also damage wood and other parts of a building if left untreated.
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Osha Ordered To Release Toxic Exposure Database — More than 25 Years of Workplace Sampling Yields Public Health Research Bonanza
by peer.org
Washington, DC — The U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has wrongfully withheld data documenting years of toxic exposures to workers and its own inspectors, according to a federal court ruling posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, the world’s largest compendium of measurements of occupational exposures to toxic substances - more than 2 million analyses conducted during some 75,000 OSHA workplace inspections since 1979 - should now be available to researchers and policymakers. Each year, an estimated 40,000 U.S. workers die prematurely because of exposures to toxic substances on the job.
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Toxic mold to delay start of classes at high school in Lodi
Cleanup measures are expected to cost millions of dollars. District officials seek funding.
by Associated Press latimes.com
LODI, CALIF. — Toxic mold growing in every classroom building at Tokay High School has forced the start of school to be delayed for several weeks and may cost millions to clean up.
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1:02 p.m. Classes resume at NEO; mold keeps employees from helping in cleanup
by joplinglobe.com
MIAMI, Okla. — Classes resumed today at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College after a week of cancellations due to the severe flooding of the Neosho River.
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