By far the most popular and commonly used test for indoor mold assessment. This test is for 26 Toxic mold plus 10 Control mold or reference mold species; the ERMI test provides a score to help with the interpretation. However, the most crucial part of the test is not the score but the individual values for each toxic mold or Group 1 expressed in Spore Equivalent per mg of dust sample (SE/mg). Our report will include a Star symbol to indicate elevated mold species, from 1-star is 10-fold, 2-stars are 100-fold, and 3-stars are 1,000-fold or more elevation.

The second score in this report is a HERTSMI-2 score, developed by Dr. Shoemaker to help patients with CIRS, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Individual BE/mg levels and the actual score are also significant for this test, but a trained and experienced professional should make the final interpretations.