The chemical formaldehyde is found just about everywhere, including in composite lumber, plastics, paints and glues used in many homes and offices. This past week, an EPA evaluation said it poses “an ...

Formaldehyde's toxicity was presumed to derive from its ability to crosslink DNA, but that happens only at huge doses. Recent discoveries that formaldehyde is found in the body in small amounts led a ...

Common personal care and beauty products like lotions, soaps, shampoos, eyeliner, and even eyelash glue can contain formaldehyde or preservatives that release formaldehyde—a known carcinogen that has ...

In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the ...

Dr. Angela Lamb talks safety around formaldehyde-containing hair products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed consideration of a long-anticipated proposal to ban formaldehyde (FA) in ...

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one that causes far more cancer than any other, one that ...

EPA’s draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde preliminarily finds that formaldehyde poses an unreasonable risk to human health. The draft risk evaluation preliminarily concludes formaldehyde does not ...

Researchers have developed a sensor made from 'frozen smoke' that uses artificial intelligence techniques to detect formaldehyde in real time at concentrations as low as eight parts per billion, far ...