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17.5% Mold
13.8% Pesticides
12.6% Medical/surgical procedures
TILT
Initiating
Exposures
12.0% Remodeling/new construction
7.2%
Fires/combustion products
1.8%
Breast implants
Participants in our large national survey identified initiating exposures. In order of frequency, these were mold,
pesticides, medical/surgical procedures, remodeling/new construction, fires/combustion products, and
breast implants.
Not all molds are toxic, but certain ones are highly toxic, for example, the so-called black mold Stachybotrys which
grows when water from floods, broken pipes, etc., saturates flooring, walls, or other organic materials.
In addition, a wide range of combustion products appear to initiate TILT, for example: the World Trade Center
disaster, the East Palestine Ohio train wreck and chemical fire, the Port of Beirut explosions, house fires,
wildfires, oil well fires during the Gulf War, and burn pits. Firefighters and first responders are especially
vulnerable because of their heavy exposures to combustion gases and particles.
Pilots and airline attendants repeatedly exposed to the