Microbial Contamination and the Healthcare Industry: A Guide to Risk Assessment and Management (Part One)

photo-2The issue of microbial contamination has become increasingly complex and intricately interwoven with construction defect and personal injury claims. A critical component of these cases that is often debated is the impact of airborne toxigenic fungi on human health.

The debate has resulted from our general lack of research and knowledge with respect to fungal issues as well as the susceptibility of microbial sampling methodology, protocol, and analysis to scrutiny resulting in invalidation of results. These problems have resulted in tremendous polarization on the issues of health impact from mold exposure and debate with photo-3respect to when, in fact, …