Indoor Air Quality, 3rd Edition

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Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds and Mold Detection

The year 2000 started with a bang in that molds took center stage in the overall consideration of indoor air quality concerns. Yet sampling methodologies for molds are expensive, difficult to interpret, and require long laboratory turnaround times.

There is controversy among experienced environmental professionals. One investigator might condemn a building and require extensive remediation with minimal sampling, whereas another investigator might attempt to assess a similar situation using more extensive sampling and more tools to gather additional information. One of the tools that is gaining in popularity is air sampling for microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs), which are predominantly ...