MoldVerified Research Desk

The Research Desk is the in-house team that decides what counts as "verified" on MoldVerified and proves it page by page. We are not a contractor, a lead broker, or an advertiser. We do not take payment to rank a company higher, and no listing position on this site can be bought.

Our work starts with primary sources. Every license claim on a contractor profile is checked against the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) public licensee database at MyFloridaLicense.com, and we record the date we checked it. Certification claims are matched against the certifying body's own registry — IICRC for restoration credentials, ACAC for the CMRS and CRMI marks. Where a state statute governs the rules of the trade, we cite it by chapter and section so you can read it yourself; for Florida mold work that is Chapter 468, Part XVI of the Florida Statutes.

This certification hub is written by the Research Desk to explain what those licenses and certificates actually mean, where they come from, and how to confirm one before you let anyone into your home. We update pages when a registry changes or a statute is amended, and we date every revision. When we are uncertain, we say so rather than smoothing it over. If you find an error in a fact we have published, tell us — corrections to source-verified claims are the one thing we treat as urgent.