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Puerto Rico Petition: Give the Health Department a Sauna Mandate

The Puerto Rico petition: a health-department mandate to inspect, test, and close moldy gym saunas on complaint — addressed to Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice Lourdes L. Gómez Torres.

Addressed to: Lourdes L. Gómez Torres, Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, and the Governor of Puerto Rico Part of: the national Mold’s Gym petition campaign — one ask, every state.

The petition

We, the undersigned residents of Puerto Rico, petition the Secretary of Justice and the Governor of Puerto Rico to close the sauna loophole in Puerto Rico law.

Whereas gyms are regulated in most states as businesses — registration, contracts, and fees — with no sanitation standard for saunas or steam rooms, and no agency clearly empowered to inspect one for mold, test one, or close one;

Whereas our nationwide research found no state that routinely inspects gym sanitation or mandates dry-sauna inspection or mold testing — the gap a Florida citizen hit in August 2024, when every agency he filed with, from the Attorney General down to code enforcement, told him there was no mandate to act on a sauna documented with Chaetomium, Aspergillus, and Nigrospora growing under a bench that had not been cleaned underneath in roughly twelve years;

We therefore ask the State of Puerto Rico to:

  1. Create the mandate. Give the state or county health department explicit authority to inspect gym saunas and steam rooms.
  2. Inspect and test on complaint. On a member’s complaint, authorize inspectors to enter, inspect, and swab/test the room.
  3. Close what fails. Authorize closure of a sauna or steam room that fails inspection until it is remediated and re-tested.
  4. Publish the results. Make sauna inspection records public, as pool inspection records already are.

Puerto Rico inspects the pool in the same building. It can inspect the sauna.

Routing note for Puerto Rico: consumer complaints in this state are officially handled outside the Attorney General’s office — the complaint link below is the official route that actually receives them, verified from the state’s own sites.

File a complaint in Puerto Rico today

You do not have to wait for this petition to win. If a gym sauna in Puerto Rico is moldy now, file through the official consumer complaint route:

Directory entry verified against the office’s own official site on 2026-10-14. Offices change hands — most recently in the 2025–2026 cycle — and this directory is refreshed after elections.

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Sign the Puerto Rico petition

Add your name to the Puerto Rico petition for a sauna inspection mandate. Your email is used only to confirm your signature and send petition updates — it is never published and never sold.

In the meantime, the most useful signature is a filed complaint — and a report to us: the Report It center takes your account, evidence, and complaint history and turns it into a formal report that feeds the national record.