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Article: BERKELEY LAB, EPA STUDIES CONFIRM LARGE PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF DAMPNESS, MOLD
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- May 24, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following press release: A pair of studies to be published in the journal Indoor Air have quantified the considerable public health risks and economic consequences in the United States from building dampness and mold.
One paper by William J. Fisk, Quanhong Lei-Gomez and Mark J. Mendell, all from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), concludes that building dampness and mold raised the risk of a variety of respiratory and asthma-related health outcomes by 30 to 50 percent.
"Our analysis does not prove that dampness and mold cause these health effects," says Fisk. "However, ...