Paper-based products, including paper towels, facial tissue, toilet paper, and napkins, are not significant sources of contact dermatitis through formaldehyde exposure, according to new data presented ...
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 ...
Papers reveal how chemical lobby influenced policy, reversing Biden-era limits on a common carcinogen ...
The Food and Drug Administration has missed its own deadline to propose a ban on the use of formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers and hair straighteners on the market in the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Jan. 2 the final risk evaluation for formaldehyde conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA has determined ...
A battle over the health risks of formaldehyde—a chemical that is nearly everywhere—is raging again. The latest showdown is over the US Environmental Protection Agency’s draft evaluation, released ...
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 ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black ...