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Poor Air Quality, Sick Building Syndromes (SBS) and other building related illness are emerging as critical health, environmental and legal issues throughout the world. In many cases hazardous Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is affecting all types of facilities such as private homes, offices, hospitals, schools, restaurants, hotels, casinos, pharmaceutical plants, food plants, high-tech electronic and computer facilities.
An excess of work-related irritations of the skin and mucous membranes and other symptoms including headache, fatigue and difficulty concentrating reported by workers in modern buildings.
This is how the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the phenomenon of Sick Building Syndrome. Some reported symptoms of high concentrations of such contaminants found in indoor air include eye, nose and throat irritation and allergy, nausea and headaches. Some contaminants may also be potentially carcinogenic. We are exposing ourselves to a wide range of potentially toxic substances with every breath we take.
This is how the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the phenomenon of Sick Building Syndrome. Some reported symptoms of high concentrations of such contaminants found in indoor air include eye, nose and throat irritation and allergy, nausea and headaches. Some contaminants may also be potentially carcinogenic. We are exposing ourselves to a wide range of potentially toxic substances with every breath we take.
