Mold Tests on W. Babylon Apartment Show Differing Results

Two lab reports on the air quality of a West Babylon apartment reportedly loaded with mold growths came back with different results.

According to PIX11, the lab results inside of an apartment at The Harbour Club where the Norinder family lived up until last week showed completely different results.

An inspector hired by the Nordiners, Michelle Ferguson of Blue Sky Inspections, said the air inside the apartment was "toxic."

She told PIX11 she found highly elevated counts of aspergillis penicillium inside of the parent's bedroom and stachybotrys inside of the walls throughout the apartment. 

"It’s the worst mold you can have,” Ferguson said. “I checked with the moisture meter. I got a dampness level of 19.2%, about two feet high on the wall.”

The landlord of The Harbor Club, Susan Barbash, hired The Clean Doctors of New York to check the same apartment out, with its results analyzed by a Florida lab, and found different results, according to PIX11.

Their results found no stachybatrys in the air, although noting there were elevated levels of aspergillus and penicillum in the apartment although “the elevations were nowhere near the elevations found” by Ferguson.

The Suffolk County Department of Health told PIX11 they would visiting the apartments later this week to check on the safety conditions themselves.