“A baby crawling on the floor inhales the equivalent of 4 cigarettes per day as a result of poor indoor air quality (out-gassing carpets, mold, mildews, mites and fungi)” -Scientific America
“Indoor Air Quality is one of the EPA’s top five environmental concerns to public health.” -EPA
“American’s spend 90% of their times indoors where the air is typically a minimum of 5 times, and up to 100 times, more polluted than outdoor air.” -EPA
“Perennial (year-long) allergens are 10-to 100-fold higher indoors than outside.” -William J. Calhoun, MD, chair department of medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch
“Six out of every 10 homes and buildings are sick, meaning they are hazardous to your health to occupy as a result of airborne pollutants.” -EPA
“700% increase in people suffering from asthma and allergies, 500% increase in people suffering from cancer in past 15 years.” -Larry Sambrook, IAQ Network Speaker Series
“If you live in a home with chronically poor air quality, you can experience frequent headaches, long lasting colds and bronchitis as well as chronic asthma.” -E. Neil Schachter, MD, Medical Director, Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York
“Annual direct healthcare cost of asthma is approximately $51 billion” -Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2007