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The Swine Flu and pandemic planning are concerns for many schools, unions, parents, school employees, and students. The following, very comprehensive information is available to the public, taken from a current HHS/CDC pandemic school planning website provided by the US Gov't.
The Center for School Mold Help recommends that any antimicrobials utilized in schools be safe for use with children and adults, administered by trained workers with appropriate protective gear, and that the MSDS sheets for all chemicals to be used are provided to parents and school staff, via the districts' websites and other sources. Pre and post-testing should be conducted and guaranteed to be accurate by an independent, Certified Industrial Hygienist whose full testing data and results are likewise posted publicly. Teachers should not be ordered back into schools without their unions being involved in determining the safety of the buildings to be reoccupied. Schools might consider use of germicidal ultraviolet UVC* and careful cleaning of HVAC's (per remediation guidelines), which can help reduce virus transmission as well as mold growth and dissemination (SMH).
* see example, below
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Many of you may already know that Albertson's Grocery Stores provides a donation several times a year to The Center for School Mold Help as one of its Community Partners. If you have not already signed up and do shop at Albertsons, please sign up, now (see below)! Automatically, up to 4% of your shopping total will be credited toward our organization.
Thank you for helping The Center for School Mold Help provide health and life-saving information to millions of site visitors!
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Welcome to The Center for School Mold Help (SMH) website, the most authoritative and current Internet location on the topic of school mold - in the world ! It has been designed by concerned educators, with the help of prominent experts, to help students and school staff stay healthy, with extensive information targeted for school administrators, parents, teachers, and school staff.
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Read the statements by The Center for School Mold Help and Dr. Raymond Singer, sent to Gregg Recer, of the NY State Dept of Health, Bureau of Toxic Substance Assessment, Center for Environmental Health, to enter into the public record and provide to the NY State Toxic Mold Task Force. The NYS Toxic Mold Task Force will convene early on Tues., April 22nd, for their second meeting.
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Of all those entrusted with guarding the public health, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) emerges as a foremost government authority. Yet, in recent years, over and over again, the CDC has failed to protect and inform. We find them lacking in the area of mold education and information. With the help of the CDC, mold in our schools, residences, government and office buildings would become a nightmare of the past.
Reading these articles about the CDC's conduct, of late, it is easy to see the parallels that exist with the CDC's handling of the problem of mold and health (as well as other environmentally caused illnesses).
Anyone who goes to the CDC website for help with a mold illness recognizes that there is a definite "disconnect". Anyone who has called the CDC for help or asked them to come out to their school and issue a NIOSH report, realizes that the help and/or report is inadequate and there is no authority to even follow the often-incomplete, watered-down advice. Further, in some cases, the CDC seems to favor school districts' interests over those of the school occupants. CDC mold sampling can be described as totally inadequate and their conclusions lackluster. Their attitude is that mold sampling is unnecessary - yet it is this information that doctors of mold-ill patients ask for most often, to document the exact species found, with their known, documented health effects. The CDC routinely ignores hundreds (perhaps thousands) of existing studies and anecdotal records related to toxic/toxigenic mold and health. They are foot-dragging, avoiding, misinforming, and targeting those scientists who would tell the truth, even within their own ranks.
In short, we seem to have politics driving policies and action within our highest public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control - thus, directly causing more health problems for millions, rather than preventing or addressing them, as they are charged to do (SMH).
SMH ACTION ALERT:
WE SUGGEST THAT YOU CALL AND WRITE THE CDC ABOUT YOUR CONCERNS RELATED TO TOXIC MOLD AND SCHOOLS and MOLD AND HEALTH.
Go to http://www.cdc.gov/about/resources/contact.htm for contact information, after reading the entire selection, below. The CDC obviously needs to be educated.
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Exclusive SMH Interview with
President of the Houston Federation of Teachers
For the Interview with Gayle Fallon, click Read more, below.
A serious mold infestation at Key Middle School (KMS) sickened scores of teachers & students through October 2007
What this bold teacher union president did to help!
SMH Subscribers may read this exclusive interview (see below)
For more info re: union mold testing (with results) at Key Middle School click here.
For photo gallery, click here.
To read about the lawsuit just filed in federal court (12/07) by minority families (including several KMS parents) alleging discrimination against poor and minority students, click here.
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