The Center for School Mold Help

This media article, written by a noted reporter for the largest newspaper in Canada, one that is nationally read by all, profiles the problems of sick schools in that country. As Director of The Center for School Mold Help, I was interviewed for this article over a year ago, helping the reporter to understand the issues with sick schools. This article will be a watershed moment in Canada, for new approaches to prevent mold and dampness in schools and for addressing that which exists. With their national health care system woefully unable to address environmental illnesses at present, Canadians can now look forward to a government that will do something in its own best interest - prevention of these illnesses by all means possible. The Center for School Mold Help has been pleased to be part of this process. (Susan Brinchman, SMH Director)

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World Health Organization

Development of WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Dampness and Mold

Report of a Working Group on Mold  (published 2008) 

This very significant document provides an overview of the known risks from mold exposure, and what should be done about them (recommendations). As a primarily European workgroup, it is interesting to note the difference in what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is telling us about mold and health and what this workgroup from the esteemed World Health Organization found to be true. At The Center for School Mold Help, we find this document as an accurate beginning in describing the problem of mold on health, as experienced in damp buildings - and in the case of the United States, this describes most schools (SMH).

An Australian and American article on similar topics: when work makes us sick. Read about this widespread cause of disease - and don't overlook (even if the reporters do) how damp, moldy, sick buildings contribute to this picture. 

Warning: This chronicle about how a health inspector, devoted to his job, died from a workplace mold exposure will horrify you, but we all need to be aware of just how deadly mold can be.

"Wendy and Dan Pauluk enjoy happier times, circa 2000." (LV City Life)

We encourage you to read this story, study the photos and decide for yourself if it is worth the risk to occupy a moldy environment. We don't think so - but then, we hear of stories just as terrible all year long. CDC and health department warnings do not begin to list the dangers.  Regretfully, the health departments of this country are pitifully untrained and unprepared to deal with mold or other toxic exposure problems (SMH).