By Michael A. Pinto, CSP, SMS, CMP, CFO – Wonder Makers Environmental

At the January 2019 Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) meeting in Atlanta, a general session with all the attendees involved a panel discussion with experts discussing the Best Practices for Mold Post-Remediation Verification (PRV) Air Sampling. Part of that debate involved the discussion of whether a single spore of certain fungal types which show up in the analysis of post-remediation air samples should be enough to classify the remediation effort as a failure. The author had the distinct honor of offering the arguments in favor of that position. Those arguments are summarized here which are in favor of having a strict criterion for evaluating analytical data from post-remediation samples.

Understanding the Parameters of the Discussion

There are plenty of discussions in the industry about the accuracy and usefulness of spore trap air samples for different aspects of the mold remediation industry. However, there is no doubt that currently those types of samples are most commonly used when evaluating the effectiveness of mold remediation projects. As such, the points in this article are focused on the fact that it has already been decided to use spore trap air samples as part of the process of determining the effectiveness of the remediation.

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