Re: Toxic Mold? Limitations uncovered...

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It's certainly not an exact science. Add this to the flexibility
inherent in the "judgment" phase, and that's probably how they got
so far off. I want to emphasize that even under the best
circumstances, we're missing more relevant info than we rely on.

The general theme here is that water intrusion = spontaneous
stachybotrys. Remdud made a good comment about the significance
of sampling - to the effect that visual observation and common
sense should prevail over IAQ/LAB work.

This is but one shortcoming.

ff

On 5/15/07, johncodie wrote:
> On 5/15/07, ff wrote:
>>
>> joohncodie:
>>
>> Wasn't AEROTECH the first to get on EPA's list. It scares the
>> heck out of me to have witnessed their, in my opinion , of
>> course, inadequate effort which also ignored existing data,
>> was based on false assumptions, coincided with the demands of
>> liable parties, etc...
>>
>> ff
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> jc
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