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Materials of consumer products and their packaging can be tested for microbial contamination if they had any moisture exposure before going to retail shelves.
Using conventional approaches such as detailed visual inspection of macroscopic and microscopic features (via compound microscopy), habitat and ecology, most species of fungi can be identified.
An Indoor Environment Quality Investigation can be conducted to find potential sources of water incursion that may be causing microbial growth within any type of building space.
An IEQ investigation may require collection of air (i.e., spore traps), surface (i.e., swabs, tape lifts), or bulk (i.e., dust, drywall, etc.) samples to help determine whether microbial levels are atypically elevated or not. We perform top notch analyses of these types of samples.
We are very experienced in expert witness testamony, and offer a scrutinized review of IEQ investigation and/or microbial analytical reports used as evidence in litigation.
We offer training and professional development courses in mycology, microbiology, classification, physiology, ecology, sampling, analyses, indoor environment, and ISO 17025 and accredited envionmental microbiology laboratory practices.
If interested in having your nature group go into the woods and forage for mushrooms and other fungi to learn many of their names and other cool facts, call us. Best time for high diversity is in the fall after a good rain.
Do you have a new innovative idea for potential patent involving growth or its prevention of some fungus? We may have the information to help facilitate your idea come to fruition. Call us. All information is kept confidential.