Literature on mycotoxins and human health at the time of the ACOEM report.

摘要

To the Editor-We read with interest the review by Dr. Craner outlining a long-standing controversy on fungal mycotoxins, exposures, and the possibility of disease. The obvious question is whether scientific lit-erature supported an association of mycotoxins and human health effects at the time of the ACOEM position paper and whether that evidence appeared correctly. In support of the association between mycotoxins and adverse human health effects, we would like to present a logic offered to the Institute of Medicine in 2003 during the committee meetings for the reviews of the IOM's report, "Damp Indoor Spaces and Health." While the logic was disregarded at that time, it was also discussed at a public meeting sponsored by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics in December 2003 and widely known within the community of scientists active on the topic, but simply not acknowledged by the many clinical reviews, state of the art papers, and position documents.