Indoor Air Quality Update
The latest news on Indoor Air Quality in Singapore as it becomes available.

Filed Under (Mold) by adminia on 12-12-2008

Mould toxins in buildings damaged by moisture are considerably more prevalent than was previously thought, according to new international research. Erica Bloom from the Division of Medical Microbiology at Lund University in Sweden has contributed to research in this field by analyzing dust and materials samples from buildings damaged by mould. Virtually all of the samples contained toxins from mould.

 

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Filed Under (Indoor Air Quality) by adminia on 18-10-2007

Micrococcus is defined as a Gram-positive aerobic bacterium that is 0.5 to 3.5 micrometers in diameter. Micrococcus cells can be observed under the microscope as spherical cells forming pairs or clusters.
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Filed Under (Cleaning) by adminia on 25-09-2007

Reports of health problems linked to chemicals in new mattresses
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Filed Under (Indoor Air Quality) by adminia on 04-06-2007


Inhalation of fungal spores, fragments (parts), or metabolites (e.g mycotoxins and volatile organic compounds) from a wide variety of fungi may lead to or exacerbate immunologic (allergic) reactions, cause toxic effects, or cause infections. The ability of the body to fight off infectious diseases may be weakened resulting in opportunistic infections.
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Filed Under (Cleaning) by adminia on 04-06-2007


The Air In Your Enviroment Could Be Making You Sick!
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New WHO estimates provide country-by-country status
by World Health Orginization
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Filed Under (Mold) by adminia on 04-06-2007


What you can’t see, can harm you? Pictures of visible mould growing in various surfaces. In indoor, if the mold airborne spores concentrations are in high counts, it can trigger allergies to sensitise individual
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Indoor air pollution has a great impact annually in lost productivity, direct medical care, lost earnings and employee sick days.
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Source control is the key to reducing allergenic symptom. You can’t completely eliminate exposure to microbial allergen all the time, but the goal to reduce reservoirs or amplification surfaces to a level that does not induce sensitization.
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Filed Under (Indoor Air Quality) by adminia on 04-06-2007


The indoors environments has a great impact on our health.
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