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Identifying Airborne Allergens in California Homes and Buildings

Air Quality Testing Services

Category	Press Release
Publish Date	8/15/2024
Author	Paul Cochrane
Title	Identifying Airborne Allergens in California Homes and Buildings
Introduction	LA Testing offers indoor environmental quality testing services, sampling supplies, test kits, air monitoring instruments, and building inspection tools to identify and mitigate exposure to allergens, respiratory irritants, and asthma triggers.
Huntington Beach, California, August 15, 2024 Most Californians, like the rest of the United States, spend up to 90% of their time indoors. What they are exposed to in the air in their homes, schools, and work environments has an impact on their health and well-being. This includes the millions of people that suffer from exposure to airborne allergens. Allergies can not only affect a person’s quality of life, each year they cost society billions of dollars in medical care and lost productivity, not to mention allergies are responsible for countless missed school days. Some of the more common indoor allergens include mold, pollen, dust mites, cockroaches, latex, and animal dander, saliva, and urine. People can also experience allergy-like symptoms from exposure to airborne particulates, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), smoke, and numerous other substances. Even for those without allergies, exposure to some of these substances can cause respiratory irritation or act as an asthma trigger for some asthmatics. “The good news is there are ways to test the indoor environment for the presence of allergens and other airborne pollutants,” said Michael Chapman, Laboratory Manager at LA Testing’s Huntington Beach facility. “When found at elevated concentrations, steps can then be taken to mitigate or eliminate exposure. These often include identifying and eliminating sources of indoor mold growth, improving ventilation and air filtration, changes to cleaning protocols – such as switching to the use of a vacuum with HEPA filtration, or one of many other steps that could benefit those suffering from allergies, asthma, or another respiratory condition.” To help those suffering from allergies, LA Testing’s California laboratories provide indoor environmental quality (IEQ) testing services for a wide range of airborne allergens, asthma triggers, and respiratory irritants. They also offer sampling supplies, easy-to-use test kits, air monitoring instruments, building inspection tools, and more. LA Testing has even sponsored an educational video about airborne allergens that can be seen at: https://youtu.be/-keSftnwYnc To learn more about indoor environmental quality testing services, sampling supplies, and monitoring instruments, please visit www.LATesting.com, email info@LATesting.com, or call (800) 755-1794. To access IEQ test kits, visit www.EMSLTestKits.com. About LA Testing LA Testing is California’s leading laboratory for environmental and indoor air quality testing of asbestos, mold, bacteria, lead, VOCs, formaldehyde, soot, char, ash and smoke damage, particulates and other chemicals. In addition, LA Testing offers a full range of air sampling and investigative equipment to professionals and the general public. LA Testing maintains an extensive list of accreditations including: AIHA LAP LLC., AIHA ELLAP, AIHA EMLAP and AIHA IHLAP, CDC ELITE, NVLAP, State of California, State of Hawaii Department of Health and other states. LA Testing, along with the EMSL Analytical, Inc. network, has multiple laboratories throughout California including South Pasadena, Huntington Beach, San Leandro and San Diego.