What hazard relates to human health in indoor environments. An overview.

Environmental factors in the house have an opportunity to give some kind of human health risk during staying at home. Among important environmental problems, air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, and UV damage remain to be solved. Because, it is hard to control such factors by ourselves. In our house such as living room, bedroom, and kitchen, we are exposing ourselves to fungal spores, house dust, mycotoxins, and volatile organic chemicals. Most of people do not believe that those may cause allergic symptoms to us. In this symposium, I organized to make a discussion concerning the view of human health hazard in indoor environments. On the basis of the presentation by four panelists, I focussed on the indoor problems with respect to mycological and chemical risk.