Reporting Highlights. Invisible Danger: Formaldehyde, a colorless pungent gas, can cause cancer, breathing problems and reproductive harms. Greatest Threat: Most of us face the highest risks in ...

Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any of them by far. So According to the EPA's numbers, it's more than 20 cancers per million people. But what we found in our investigation and what the EPA ...

In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one that causes far more cancer than any other, one that is so widespread that nobody in the United States is safe from it.

Reporting Highlights. An Ever-Present Danger: Formaldehyde is all around us and causes more cancer than any other chemical in the air. It can also trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility ...

Formaldehyde has been linked to cancer — but the chemical, and preservatives that release it, are often added to personal care products to extend their shelf life.

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 ...

An urgent warning has been issued to millions of women after the carcinogen formaldehyde was detected in dozens of popular personal care products. While experts have long been concerned about the ...

Formaldehyde—a chemical building block used in basic products like composite wood, plastics, paints, adhesives, and sealants—poses unreasonable health risks to workers and consumers, the US ...

Formaldehyde is known to form chemical adducts with nucleic acids and proteins. These adducts have been found to be difficult to remove by normal metabolic pathways; hence, accumulation may occur ...

Formaldehyde “cannot in principle be placed on the E.U. market,” he said. In March 2024, a federal judge dismissed the chemistry council’s lawsuit. And early this year, ...

A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair straightening products is now in limbo after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing all federal regulations. The Food and Drug ...