"Humidity is an issue causing increased mold growth. Have they considered room dehumidifiers in addition to air filtration? if you have mold inside the air filter units, all of that needs to be cleaned and disinfected and new filters replaced otherwise it just distributes mold spores or dust, and of course filters must be replaced on a regular basis. You could take your concerns to a county health department, and they may render a decision on what should be done. That would kind of put you in an uncomfortable position. There may also be mold in the building itself and in their duct work and it may be a bigger problem."

The building is brand new and after an inspection, the only place any mold was found was in the air purifiers. We just recently asked that the maintanence crew look into figuring out why our air exchange system doesn't control the humidity caused by our wrestlers better than it does. I agree we need dehumidifiers, not purifiers in that building but no one is listening. They think the air purifiers are keeping up with the humidity and that we need to simply change the filters more often. The problem is that that doesn't happen. Ive been told that they are being changed or cleaned twice weekly and I have pictures of mold growing on the same filter for two weeks now, so I know they aren't getting changed. The purifiers in the actual wrestling room have not been running the past two weeks and we haven't had a single respiratory related illness in that time. Now the flu has been running like a river through our school but we keep sick kids out of practice and the mats are cleaned daily.

Thanks for your response and suggestions! Looking into them as we speak!!!