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Web Walking With Weissman: Mold Resources

This is part of my continuing series of useful links from the Internet. In this installment, we will look at mold and getting information from the Internet.

U.S. EPA - Mold Resources (Mold Homepage) – some FAQs, and you can download mold guidance booklets: http://www.epa.gov/mold/moldresources.html
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Molds in the Environment FAQs: http://www.cdc.gov/mold/faqs.htm
Questions and Answers on Stachybotrys chartarum and other molds: http://www.cdc.gov/mold/stachy.htm
California Research Bureau Report: Molds, Toxic Molds, and Indoor Air Quality (19 pages, 2001) http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/01/notes/v8n1.pdf
California Department of Health Services - Indoor Air Program: Provides some basic information at http://www.cal-iaq.org/. Mold links are in the right column under Most Visited.
New York City Department of Health: Healthy homes brochure discusses lead, mold and other problems found in the home during renovation or remodeling and what you can do to keep your children safe: (16-page book) http://home2.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/lead/lead-brochure-healthy-home.pdf
Minnesota Department of Health: Mold in Homes; provides some basic information: http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/indoorair/mold/index.html
University of Minnesota, Department of Environmental Health and Safety: Fungi in Buildings; has a good fungal glossary and photographs: http://www.dehs.umn.edu/iaq_fib.htm
Fungal Abatement Safe Operating Instruction: http://www.dehs.umn.edu/iaq_fasop.htm
Managing Water Infiltration Into Buildings and various links on this subject: http://www.dehs.umn.edu/iaq_fi.htm

If I had to pick the best of these websites, it would have to be the University of Minnesota for its glossary and photo library. My second choice would be the EPA's website.

Posted by Barry R. Weissman on Jan 09, 2012

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