Volume 5 No. 4
June/July 2017
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TABLE OF CONTENTS—July 2017
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8 | Asthma:
Understanding and Reducing the Risks
Asthma affects people of all ages, but it
most often starts during childhood. In the
United States, more than 25 million people
are known to have asthma. About 7 million
of these people are children.
6 | Editorial
20 | May's Ways
Jeffrey May's monthly column on
improving your indoor environments.
28 | Industry Watch
32 | MOMS Clean Air Force News
Lead in Food: A Hidden Health Threat
Digital Edition Bonus Section
https:/HealthyIndoors.com/magazine
38 | MOMS Clean Air Force News BONUS
40 | IAQ Live Wire
Healthy Indoors virtual industry newsroom.
42 | IAQ Radio
Listen to the online weekly radio show and
its archived episodes.
16 | Chemoreception and Building-Related Symptoms
Symptoms are associated with exposure to con-
taminants in an indoor environment. They include
headache, nasal sinus congestion, throat irritation,
and respiratory effects, and are sometimes referred to
in the published literature as "sick building syndrome"
(SBS) symptoms.
By Steve Temes