Re: Re: Bio-Science treatment for mold infested buildings

[Guest guest]

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I'm with Gil on this one. Molds exist by secreting

enzymes into the environment to digest food into soluble nutrients.

In fact, it is often these very enzymes that cause the allergy problems

which people experience due to mold. Enzymes are the essence of metabolism

(life) and thus our immune systems are primed to recognize them;

if foreign enzymes are detected in the lungs, the body alarms go off to

signal the presence of another life form. (Similarly, the immune

system is primed to recognize glycoproteins, components of spore cell walls.)

I would be very cautious about spraying any enzyme

into an environment, because allergenic residues could coat dust particles

that are subsequently aerosolized. As with all allergens, it could take

time to become sensitized and immediate allergy would not be apparent.

Interestingly, there are thousands of chemicals that

are regulated but only one bioaerosol, out of the millions of possibilities.

Coincidentally, this bioaerosol is an enzyme, subtilisin, from Bacillus

subtilis. Because it is such a powerful sensitizer, 60 billionths of a

gram per cubic meter of air is the limit.

At one point, before anyone realized the problem,

up to 60% of workers exposed to subtilisin aerosol developed occupational

asthma.

May

J. May Home Inspections, Inc.

<http://www.myhouseiskillingme.com>

CarrollBower wrote:

Well you are certainly allowed to be skeptical.

Why

don't you order the product and try it out for

yourself. So far it makes much more sense to me to use

a microbe rather than a chemical to clean this mess

up!

Since it is an enzyme actually, it makes sense to me.

I think many can attest to the pro-biotics(enzymes)

that the "Docs in the know" put their patients on,

when they find out it is mold.......

Carroll-Bower, NTMCPresident

--- Gil Vice <gilvice@...> wrote:

> Please consider me a skeptic. Using one organism

> to defeat another can

> quite possibly replace one allergenic situation with

> another. All

> microorganisms have the potential to have an effect

> on human health,

> particularly for people who are immune compromised

> by illness or even .......

> testimonial.>

> Gil

>

> From: CarrollBower <ntmcpresident@y...>

> Date: Sat Sep 28, 2002 9:31 am

> Subject: The Company writes, about their product

> for Toxic Mold Removal!

>

> Dear all:

>

> Here is the nice letter we recieved this morning and

> am forwarding it, and

> hope that it answers your questions regarding this

> "non-Chemical: treatment.

>

> Carroll-Bower, President, National Toxic Mold

> Coaltition

>

>