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BIOCONTAMINANT CONTROL (INDOOR ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT BRANCH, AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL DIVISION, NRMRL)
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The strategy of NRMRL's Indoor Environment Management Branch in Research Triangle Park, NC, is to work cooperatively with experts to enhance the scientific understanding of indoor air biocontaminants and to develop prevention and control techniques for mitigation of indoor air pollution by biocontaminants. This can be accomplished by (1) evaluating the factors controlling growth and emissions of indoor biocontaminants, (2) developing standard methods for assessment of materials susceptibility to microbial growth, and (3) evaluating the effectiveness of prevention and control techniques. The current emphasis of this research is on fungi, endotoxins, and allegens. Laboratory experiments are being conducted to investigate the sources and causes of indoor air biocontamination. Laboratory experiments provide a controlled environment so that reproducible data can be generated by which critical parameters that promote or discourage the germination, growth, dispersion, and death of indoor biocontaminants can be isolated and identified. The critical parameters identified provide a scientific base for evaluating and developing effective prevention and control techniques to reduce the risk of exposure to indoor biocontaminants. To learn more about this research, visit the website at http://www.epa.gov/appcdwww/crb/iemb/biocontam.htmTo access directly from this website, click on downloads on the navigation bar.