Indoor air quality and health

In recent years, there has been a growing concern in the medical community regarding thehazardous effects of poor IAQ on the health of individuals. People tend to spend 90% of theirtime indoors and studies have shown that in some air conditioned and mechanically ventilatedbuildings, the levels of contaminants like environmental tobacco smoke, volatile organiccompounds and biological microorganisms like Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses in the indoor aircan often be several times more than outdoor air.Poor IAQ leads to an increased incidence of health related symptoms like headache,dizziness, eye and throat infection, fatigue, memory loss and certain diseases like Allergy andAsthma, Legionnaires disease, Humidifier fever, and even Lung cancer. All this leads to lossof productivity, absenteeism and tremendous health and economic burden on individuals, theirfamilies and organizations they are working for.