The EPA provides information, guides and tools for your school. This group offers a wide range of information about how to keep schools healthy and will help you communicate with school boards. Go to top 10 Things you need to know about mold by Arnold Mann 1. Where mold grows. Molds grow everywhere, from the surface of Antarctic rocks to the inside windows of Soviet spacecraft.
Molds are a part of nature.
We are exposed to them every day. For most people molds only become a problem when they start growing indoors and the air inside a building becomes concentrated with allergenic spores and mycotoxins, the chemical toxins that some molds produce. What happens when molds come indoors. The resulting high concentration of spores and mycotoxins is recirculated throughout the building by the HVAC system and can be a serious health problem, particularly to sensitive or allergic individuals. Most important is that molds need water to grow.