Mold Facts

A 1999 Mayo Clinic study attributed nearly all the chronic sinus infections afflicting 37 million Americans to molds.

"About 38 percent of homes have mold and fungus due to elevated moisture" (The American Society of Home Inspectors)

Exposure to mold also called black mildew, occurs when people inhale mold spores.

A 1999 Harvard University School of Public Health study of 10,000 homes in the United States and Canada found half had "conditions of moisture and mildew associated with a 50 to 100% increase in respiratory symptoms."

Stachybotrys chartarum is a fungus that has become notorious as a mycotoxin producer that can cause animal and human mycotoxicosis. Indeed, over the past 15 years in North America, evidence has accumulated implicating Stachbotrys as a serious problem in homes and buildings and one of the causes of the "sick building syndrome."