The black mold people are concerned about in buildings is stachybotrys. They type species is stachybotrys atrum. Totally different mold.
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OTA, a clinically relevant mycotoxin, can accumulate in human tissue and cause a variety of serious health conditions.[43] Potential consequences of OTA poisoning include kidney damage, kidney failure and cancer but the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not set maximum permissible levels of OTA in food unlike the EU that set maximum permissible levels in a variety of food products
Your post title is now a lie. Fix it or delete the post.
I take a lot of that mold work with a figurative grain of salt. I'll confess I'm not familiar with the aspergillus literature, but stachybotrys risks are way overblown. The concerns are driven by courts rather than the medical literature.
The last time I had a deep dive into it there was a single case of stachybotrys poisoning which occurred when a farmhand fell into a silo of moldy hay. He had a complete recovery within 10 days. That ~~was~~ deep dive was 15 years ago so maybe something else has come up?
All of these molds are present in the environment. If you spend any time hiking in the woods or around hay or barns you are exposed to reasonably high levels.
Don't give landlords ideas. "That black mold is going into cleaning solution! You should be honored!"
Right? I hadn't thought of that. I just always thought *citric acid was you know, made of citrus.
I think you're trying to say "citric acid."
I think you're right, lol. I was reading a blog that was trying to sell herbal remedies and was talking about how it was originally from citrus and I think I confused the two names. It turned out to be true information since I used their source for NIH.
Yep. It really looks funny. You have those stainless steel tubs in shelves with that black pelt of Aspergillus Niger mold growing, and you know the stuff they make will end up in about each and every convenience food product in the world: Bread, soda, pizza, instant soup, pasta sauce - basically everywhere.