Amazingly Versatile!
In America, dogs have been successfully used for many
years by military and law enforcement agencies
to detect varied substances. A 1991 report prepared for the US Congress
noted that the dog and handler team remains the most
widely used, accurate, durable and flexible system available for detecting
illegal drugs and explosives (Technology Against Terrorism, 1991). Each
year, the Department of Defense, federal, state and local law enforcement
agencies spend considerable resources to breed, raise, purchase, train
and maintain working dogs.
About five years ago, the growing problem of mold in homes and businesses
led researchers to further investigate the possibility
that dogs could be trained to detect molds.
Mold dogs are trained to discriminate scents of various
types of microbial colonies in a variety of structures,
including attics and crawl spaces. Scent discrimination
enables the mold dog to differentiate between normal product materials
found in the home and alert only on mold. The method of indication is
a passive method (sit). If the dog finds mold, the dog will alert the
handler to the location. The mold dogs receive more than 600 hours of
training and are proficient in their duties before the handler arrives
at the Academy. The mold dog and handler are then paired and trained
together for a minimum of 40 hours. Quarterly testing and annual recertification
are required. At the end of the course, the Certified Master Trainer
verifies that each canine team is capable of discriminating scents of
the mold and issues certification.
The MOLD DOG represents the newest technology for consumers in America
to detect and more importantly, pinpoint mold in
structures, thus lowering remediation costs. As stated above, the detector
dog-handler team has for years been considered “the most effective
and broadly usable detection technology currently available to law
enforcement officials (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment,
1992).
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