Toxic Mold Does NOT Exist

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Toxic Mold Does NOT Exist

• Stachybotrys atra, which is probably the most
  maligned and feared indoor mold, is not as
  toxic as the media portray. The trichothecene
  mycotoxin which has given Stachybotrys a bad name
  is produced by only about a third of the species
  of Stachybotrys.
• Furthermore, the mycotoxins are not always
  produced by the organisms that do occasionally
  produce the compound the mycotoxin is only
  produced under very specific stress conditions.
  Furthermore, the mycotoxin, when it is produced,
  is only produced in the spores and the spores are
  not readily removed from the main organism. It
  takes an unusual amount of mechanical effort to
  make the spores become airborne. The spores, when
  they are shaken loose, are so large they settle
  out within about 10 minutes and so do not remain
  airborne for very long.
• Indoor Molds State of Knowledge. Caoimhin P.
  Connell. http//members.aol.com/piobin/sok.html

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Toxic Mold Does NOT Exist

• Some researchers, however, quantified the dose
  and have attempted to clinically establish a
  dose-response relationship between airborne
  spores and adverse effects. One team
  investigating Stachybotrys identified an LD50
  (dose-based inhalation concentration resulting in
  death in 50 of the test population) of 123
  Million spores per pound body weight. For a one
  hundred fifty four pound individual, that would
  equate to a total body burden of 18,900,000,000
  spores. In a home that contained an extremely
  elevated Stachybotrys spore count of say, 200
  Stachybotrys spores per cubic meter of air, a
  person would have to spend 10,822 years in the
  house (24 hours per day, seven days per week) to
  receive the necessary dose.
• Peraica M Radic B Lucic A Pavlovic M Toxic
  effects of mycotoxins in humans.Bull World Health
  Organ 199977(9)754-66 (ISSN 0042-9686)