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Air Quality Awareness Week 2025 and Resources to Identify Airborne Pollutants in California

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Category	Press Release
Publish Date	5/6/2025
Author	Paul Cochrane
Title	Air Quality Awareness Week 2025 and Resources to Identify Airborne Pollutants in California
Introduction	LA Testing provides air testing services, sampling supplies, test kits, monitoring instruments, and personal protective equipment to detect and mitigate exposure risks to airborne contaminants in both the indoor and outdoor environment.
Huntington Beach, California, May 6, 2025 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with partners that include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and various other federal, state, and local agencies, announced that May 5^th through the 9^th will be recognized as Air Quality Awareness Week (AQAW) for 2025. AQAW’s goal is to promote events that increase air quality awareness and encourage people to regularly check the Air Quality Index (AQI) in their area. This year’s theme is Stay Air Aware. Agencies sponsoring the annual event will focus on the following daily topics: Monday – Wildland Fires and Smoke Tuesday – Asthma and Your Health Wednesday – Indoor Air Quality Thursday – Air, Animals, and Plants Friday – Air Quality Resources “In California, most residents are impacted by wildfire smoke at least once each year,” said Michael Chapman, Laboratory Manager of LA Testing’s Huntington Beach facility. “Wildfire smoke is a concern, not just for people when they are outdoors. Wildfire smoke will make its way indoors where it can degrade indoor air quality conditions and exacerbate a number of respiratory conditions, including asthmas. Unfortunately, millions of Californians suffer from asthma. Other common asthma triggers include mold and pollen, dust mites and cockroaches, as well as pet and rodent dander. At LA Testing, our industrial hygiene and environmental laboratories proudly support the efforts of AQAW. We offer indoor and outdoor air quality testing services for all of this year’s Air Quality Awareness Week areas of focus. LA Testing also provides sampling supplies, easy-to-use test kits, monitoring instruments, and respirators and other personal protective equipment.” A few years ago, LA Testing sponsored an educational video about Air Quality Awareness Week that can still be seen at: https://youtu.be/XRzwmVzZspE To learn more about air quality testing resources, please visit www.LATesting.com, email info@LATesting.com, or call (800) 755-1794. For access to indoor environmental quality 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.