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 ...

Formaldehyde may be used as a wet-strength additive in the manufacturing of paper-based products, and several countries outside the US have identified it in such products, but dat ...

Papers reveal how chemical lobby influenced policy, reversing Biden-era limits on a common carcinogen ...

The Biden administration has officially determined the chemical formaldehyde poses an “unreasonable” risk to human health and should be regulated. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this ...

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 ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — It's a chemical found almost everywhere and it causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. The pollutant, called formaldehyde, causes numerous other health issues, ...

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.

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 ...