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Man's best friend is the latest weapon in the war on mold. Similar to finding bombs and drugs, a dog's amazing sense of smell (measurable in parts per trillion), enables an inspector to pinpoint exact areas of toxic mold. Inside walls, behind tile, under furniture and carpet, places where traditional inspection methods are unable to detect. This leads to more accurate and less expensive remediation. Not to mention the Safeguarding of your Health and Home.
AES & "Savannah" Save the Day It was one week before Fall session was to start at a local Southern California Elementary School and the discovery was made that one of the classrooms had a mold problem. Time was short and the remediation work commenced immediatly. The problem was "What about everything in the classroom (textbooks, learing aids, and basic supplies for 40 students) ? Are these items contaminated?, Are they safe to have our children around? Not only was there not enough time to reorder everything but the cost was in the thousands of dollars. AES and Savannah were called in. "Savannah" alerted to the boxes with contaminated items in it and we were able to systematically remove the contents one by one until the remainder was cleared. "Savannah" was able to save the School District the money and time it would have taken to replace textbooks and school supplies that would have had to have been thrown out due to mold growth as dictated by non K-9 traditional remediation methods. Traditional post remediation clearance methods dictate that a tape lift sample ( at $0.00 to $100.00 ea.) would have had to been taken from each and every one of the thousands of items that were removed from the classroom. "Savannah" is re-certified every 3 months in order to maintain her legal status as a "Scientific Instrument". A properly trained and certified detection dog is recognized in court as a "Scientific Instrument" (US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals)
According to a report prepared by the Institute for Biological Detection Systems (IBDS) of Auburn University ( Auburn , AL ), dogs have the following capabilities: • Sensitivity: Documented limits of olfactory detection for the dog range from tens of parts per billion to 500 parts per trillion. • Discrimination: Dogs have a remarkable ability to discriminate target vapor from non-target vapors that are also present, even at relatively high concentrations of non-target odors. • Odor Signatures: When being trained to detect a substance, dogs learn to alert to one or two of its most abundant vapor compounds. • Multiple Odor Discriminations: Dogs can easily learn as many as ten odor discriminations. • From a single drop of urine, the sniffing dog learns the marking animal's sex, diet, health, emotional state, and even whether it's dominant or submissive, friend or foe. • Tracking dogs follow a biochemical trail of dead skin cells, sweat, odor molecules, and gasses. • For dogs, a scent article is like a three-dimensional "odor image" - much more detailed than a photograph is for a person. • Dogs can track a scent through snow, air, mud, water, and even ash. BILL WHITSTINE
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