TY - CONF
T1 - IAQ legal compliance is enough to protect health concerning exposure to fungi?
AU - Gomes, Bianca
AU - Dias, Marta
AU - Cervantes, Renata
AU - Caetano, Liliana Aranha
AU - Viegas, Carla
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL/2020/BIOAmbuDrivers_ESTeSL). National funds through the FCT within the scope of the PhD Grant UI/BD/151431/2021. H&TRC authors gratefully acknowledge the FCT/MCTES national support through the UIDB/05608/2020 and UIDP/05608/2020.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL/2020/BIO-AmbuDrivers_ESTeSL). National funds through the FCT within the scope of the PhD Grant UI/BD/151431/2021. H&TRC authors gratefully acknowledge the FCT/MCTES national support through the UIDB/05608/2020 and UIDP/05608/2020.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The health impacts from Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) have been well discussed under the scientific community. This study aimed to characterize the fungal contamination of eleven firefighters headquarters (FFH) with a multi-approach sampling and analyses protocol and compared the results with compliance levels from IAQ Portuguese legislation. The majority of FFH (6 out of 11) respected the fungal quantitative legal guideline (I/O < 1). Regarding fungal qualitative guideline, toxigenic fungal strains belonging to Aspergillus sp. were identified in FFH that did not comply with the quantitative criteria. Also, toxigenic species were found in FFH which fulfilled the guideline (I/O). Concerning the Portuguese criteria, the IAQ guidelines are not efficient to protect health.
AB - The health impacts from Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) have been well discussed under the scientific community. This study aimed to characterize the fungal contamination of eleven firefighters headquarters (FFH) with a multi-approach sampling and analyses protocol and compared the results with compliance levels from IAQ Portuguese legislation. The majority of FFH (6 out of 11) respected the fungal quantitative legal guideline (I/O < 1). Regarding fungal qualitative guideline, toxigenic fungal strains belonging to Aspergillus sp. were identified in FFH that did not comply with the quantitative criteria. Also, toxigenic species were found in FFH which fulfilled the guideline (I/O). Concerning the Portuguese criteria, the IAQ guidelines are not efficient to protect health.
KW - Aspergillus sp
KW - Azole resistance screening
KW - Firefighters headquarters
KW - Indoor Air Quality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159176506&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85159176506
T2 - 17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022
Y2 - 12 June 2022 through 16 June 2022
ER -