DR and other media have now thrown their love on mold, first with "Kontant" the other day, and most recently with headlines like this:
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/doedelig-skimmelsvamp-udvikler-resistens
In this connection, there is a need to get a few things in place.
As a starting point, healthy people do NOT die from mould, we as a species have evolved in an environment where we inhale mold spores with every breath. They are everywhere and since they are microscopically small, they float around in the air and therefore also end up in our lungs – over and over again.
The places where we come into contact with the most mold spores are (apart from a mold-infested apartment) out in nature and worst in the hot, humid summer months. Figures from Asthma and the Allergy Association and DMI show that up to 60,000 spores per cubic meter of air can be measured in the outdoor air - this means that on a trip outdoors in those months we inhale up to 300 spores per minute.
In reality, the little guys should thrive in our lungs – there is high humidity and plenty of food. However, they do NOT, because our immune system knows them and shuts them down before they get too well underway.
In some people, the immune system can go crazy and react violently (and inappropriately) to mold - these are those who are mold allergic (that's 1-2 % of the Danish population) they react with the classic hay fever symptoms - runny nose, watery eyes, difficulty concentrating and in general discomfort – but they do NOT die from it!!!!!.
So for all "ordinary" people, mold is harmless!!
If you are NOT normal, i.e. if your immune system is proven to be weakened or completely disabled - this is typical for patients who have received a new organ through transplantation, and for people who are undergoing intensive chemotherapy, then there may be a risk of that you can get a mold infection.
If the immune system cannot cope with mold spores that land in the lungs, then they will grow in there in the lovely moist, warm, nutrient-rich environment. There can also be mold spores that land elsewhere in the body through surgical wounds etc. and they can then thrive wherever they happen to land.
These are the cases that DR has now made a headline, and in those cases the mold infection must be treated with fungicides.
The problem is (as with antibiotics) that the agents you use have actually been developed as plant protection agents, and here a large group are the so-called "triazoles". They are used everywhere in agricultural production to prevent the crop from being destroyed by mould. There is now discussion about the widespread use actually causing some mold species to become resistant to the fungal poison and that it can therefore be difficult to treat people with a damaged immune system who have contracted a fungal infection.
As for Protox's "mold" products, they contain neither ProtoxHysan, ProtoxBiox, ProtoxMille or ProtoxProtect triazoles.
When we therefore remove mold growth with ProtoxHysan, then we do it with an agent that CANNOT create resistance - namely chlorine dioxide, and when we afterwards prevent with ProtoxProtect, then it contains the fungal poison IPBC which is NOT used for human medicine.
Our approved wood preservatives Protox Aquaground and ProtoxSvamp contains small amounts of Propiconazole, which is a triazole, as it is necessary to be able to comply with the requirements set by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency to approve them as "wood preservatives". Since these products are NOT used to fight mold attacks - as is done in agriculture, but to prevent attacks by the wood-destroying fungi, their possible influence on the development of resistance in mold is at an extremely theoretical level.