Who is Responsible for Mold, Landlord or Tenant?

  If you have a tenant with mold sensitivities who alerts you to a mold problem, the appropriate response may not be obvious. You may think that it’s your responsibility to clean it up, but many times, it’s not. It depends on the severity and cause of the...

Landlords, Tenants and Black Mold

When you search for a rental house or apartment, you generally look for a place that’s affordable, in decent shape, close to work, and suitable to your personal needs. One of the last questions on your mind is whether a given property is contaminated with toxic...

HERTSMI and ERMI Mold Scores Related to Safety

PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS While high scores of both ERMI and HERTSMI-2 accurately predicted markedly increased risk of recrudescence, only low HERTSMI-2 predicted safety from reexposure for patients who had prior CIRS-WDB. Use of HERTSMI-2 is inexpensive, reproducibly...

Mold Allergy

Overview If you have a mold allergy, your immune system overreacts when you breathe in mold spores. A mold allergy can make you cough, make your eyes itch and cause other symptoms that make you miserable. In some people, mold allergy is linked to asthma and exposure...

Contamination of HVAC Ducting

Cladosporium is widespread in Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC). Some species in which are responsible for the majority of fungal infections or allergy in humans. To assess the exposure risks of Cladosporium in HVAC to human health, the colony...