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Environmentally Friendly Mold Remediation Techniques That Significantly Reduce Childhood Asthmaspecies that there is or has been water damage:• Chaetomium, Stachybotrys, Curvularia on paper and wood, and• Penicillium/Aspergillus-like, Chlamyospores and elevatedCladosporium in AC systems.Failed-Remediations are a result of inappropriate clearance criteria.In order to be able to claim success in buildings with high backgroundlevels of mold, the remediation industry (and the insurancecompanies that pay for the work) has adopted the nonsensicalapproach of basing the success of the remediation on the comparisonof indoor and outdoor total mold spore counts. They say, in a"successful" remediation, the indoor total spore count is no more thanthe outdoor count.This typical method of basing the success of a mold remediation oncomparing indoor total spore counts to outdoor levels is clearly wrongin today’s modern air conditioned buildings. In a modern home oroffice building, the use of AC and/or air filters will almost always havea much greater impact on the indoor spore count than will theoutdoor levels. A remediation is successful when the location is essentiallyfree from problem mold species within the indoor air, settled dust and theair conveyance system; and the water damage that caused the mold problem hasbeen fixed.We believe that as a result of a mold remediation, the location shouldbe a healthful place to live or work – basically, it should be “good as new.”Even small amounts of indoor mold growth of problematicspecies – even though well-below outdoor levels – may beproblematic for many inhabitants.Again, the industry generally defines successful remediation as indoorspore counts no more than outdoor spore counts. This big lie hasbeen accepted by the courts in many cases and makes it very easy tooperate a remediation business and make money. The only problemis that when you use that criteria and the people inside are sick ... theyoften will not get better.49