PBS

Formaldehyde is everywhere, but poses dangers to our health. Here's what to know

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 ...
Science Daily

Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, is also used by the body to regulate our genes

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 ...
Fast Company

Your soap, lotion, and shampoo may contain formaldehyde

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 ...
NPR

FDA move to ban formaldehyde in hair straighteners called too little, too late

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 ...
PBS

Formaldehyde is everywhere, but poses dangers to our health

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 ...