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Lab’eau-air-sol offers efficient, professional services for all your environmental analysis needs. Whether for prevention or when a problem arises, we can suggest solutions to help you maintain a healthy home environment.
Good air quality and a safe working environment promote employee productivity. Lab’eau-air-sol offers solutions for assessing and managing all the factors impacting your working environment, and provides precise measurements of the parameters affecting your company’s air quality.
Detect the appearance of molds, fungi and diseases in your crops before the effects are visible and damage is too far advanced, using the spore identification method. To maximize your time and money, and reduce your impact on the environment, we now offer plant pathology monitoring and prevention services.
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Did you know that your water heater plays an important role in preventing Legionella pneumophila?
This bacterium, responsible for Legionnaires’ disease, can develop in hot water systems when certain conditions are favorable: inadequate temperature control, stagnant water and the presence of rust, scale or limescale deposits. Legionellosis is a respiratory infection that can cause fever, coughing, breathing difficulties and, in some cases, serious complications in more vulnerable individuals, such as the elderly or immunosuppressed people. It is important to understand that the bacterium is transmitted mainly by inhalation of fine droplets of contaminated water, which can be generated by showers and faucets, and not by drinking water. Although Quebec regulations only govern the management of…
Beyond the walls: the human and social impact of weeping merula
From disaster victim to megaphone: a journey marked by weeping merula Often, there’s the conviction that weeping merula only affects other people. That it only affects abandoned houses, cases of serious disrepair or insalubrity.Until, that is, it invites itself into your home. This is exactly what Marie-Hélène Cauchon, Director of Mérule Québec, experienced when she discovered that her own home was contaminated by this devastating fungus in 2014. An article entitled”Le cancer du bâtiment: le connaître et le combattre”is available on the Lab Eau-Air-Sol website for a better understanding of the problems associated with this fungus. In 2014, there is…