In reply to Bruce Nugent's request for more info on the mould in classroom,
please find below a part of the story that appeared on the Toronto Star
site. We clipped the item for our school health listserve that provides news
items, journal summaries, websites for health teachers and students and a
variety of other info. Here is the "Digest" from a recent School Health
posting this week.
school_health Digest for 15 Dec 1998
Topics covered in this issue include:
1: For Health teachers-AMA Site for Kids
by Doug McCall <[log in to unmask]>
2: For Health Teachers-Online Learning-Yucky, Cool Body Info
by Doug McCall <[log in to unmask]>
3: For All-Health Inequalities Page
by Doug McCall <[log in to unmask]>
4: For All-Health Canada reports on Mental Health of Children and
by Doug McCall <[log in to unmask]>
5: For All-NewsClip-Asthma Rates High in School Children
by Doug McCall <[log in to unmask]>
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Here is the Toronto Star story
You may also want to search the Canada NewsWire Site at:http://www.newswire.ca
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Subject: For All-NewsClip-ONT MPP Pushed for Test for Mould in Portables
Test all portables for mould, MPP urges
Toronto Star Staff Reporters
All of the province's 14,000 portable classrooms would be tested for mould
and repaired immediately under a private members bill introduced by New
Democrat Bud Wildman. Wildman (Algoma) said yesterday that eliminating the
potentially harmful mould from portables is a non-partisan issue and called
upon MPPs from all three parties to support his bill. Private members bills
rarely become law.
Some medical officials, environmental engineers and building scientists have
linked prolonged exposure to the mould stachybotrys atra to migraines,
nosebleeds, asthma, fatigue, rashes,diarrhea and irritability.
Citizen groups in Peel, Halton, Windsor, Ottawa and York Region have been
pushing
their local school boards to conduct tests on portables and have been urging the
government to provide funding for the tests, which cost about $1,000 per
portable.
At 06:10 AM 12/16/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi everyone. I'm back after my exile from CLICK4HP - thanks for opening
>the door for my return Alison.
>
>Does anyone have any info on a news conference held by Ontario New Democrat
>MPP Bud Wildman (great last name or what?) on the subject of mold in the
>classroom? I can't find any info out anywhere and we have had some media
>calls on the mold subject. All I have is a transcript from a local radio
>station - see below. So, if anyone knows where I could get my hands on
>some other media coverage or even the release from Mr. Wildman's office I
>would be a happy man.
>
>Cheers and merry Christmas and all that.
>
>SOURCE : MARATHON STATION: CFNO-FM
> PROGRAM : NEWS (08:00) TIME : 08:02
> REFERENCE: EB007-5 LENGTH : 00:00:35
> DATE : 15 Dec 98
>
> MOLD IN THE CLASSROOMS
>
>
>
> PETRIE: A New Democrat MPP says that the government should take
>
> action on moldy portables. Bud Wildman has introduced a private
>
> members bill that would require the province to routinely test
>
> portables classrooms for mold. At a news conference, Wildman
>
> brought out a man in a white hazardous material suit - complete
>
> with respirator and protective goggles to demonstrate the dangers
>
> of mold. Education Minister, Dave Johnson, says that it is up to
>
> local health officials to inspect the buildings.
>
>
>Bruce Nugent
>Thunder Bay District Health Unit
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>http://www.tbdhu.on.ca
>
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