Why is there so much concern about indoor air quality?
• Indoor air pollutants pose serious environmental exposures to people. Because Americans spend more than 90 percent of their time indoors, this has become a major concern. • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that IAQ is one of the top five environmental health risks of our time and indoor air pollution is one of the greatest risks to human health.
• Indoor air pollutants pose serious environmental exposures to people, especially as people spend more than 90 percent of their time indoors. Exposure can cause some people to experience adverse health effects and poor IAQ in commercial buildings can lower worker productivity. In addition, studies have shown that poor IAQ can adversely impact learning among school children, in addition to making allergy and asthma symptoms worse. • The US Environmental Protection Agency cites IAQ as one of the top five environmental health risks and indoor air pollution as one of the greatest risks to human health.
Indoor air pollutants pose serious environmental exposures to people, especially as people spend more than 90 percent of their time indoors. Exposure can cause some people to experience adverse health effects and poor IAQ in commercial buildings can lower worker productivity. In addition, studies have shown that poor IAQ can adversely impact learning among school children, in addition to making allergy and asthma General IAQ symptoms worse. Basic Facts about Indoor Air Quality • General IAQ • Building-related symptoms • Health effects associated with IAQ • Mold • Ventilation • IAQ in schools and at work General IAQ • Americans spend more than 90 percent of their time indoors. • Indoor air can be as much as 100 times more polluted than outside air. These pollutants pose serious environmental exposures to people. • The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls indoor air pollution one of the greatest risks to human health. • Indoor air can pose a risk to human health, including asth
