When high levels of formaldehyde began showing up in FEMA trailers housing those left homeless by Hurricane Katrina, it was a reminder that this chemical is all around. It's in glue, plywood, plastics ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A coalition of 13 Democratic state attorney generals is urging the Trump administration to drop a “dangerous and scientifically unsupported” revision to a federal formaldehyde-inhalation risk ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair care products has been pushed back once again, and the timeline for its release remains undetermined. The FDA said in October ...

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 ...

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, ...