Some have shea butter, others are packed with formaldehyde releasers and other harmful chemicals, explained Elissia Franklin, an analytical chemist at Silent Spring, in a press statement. “We wanted a ...

More than half of Black and Latina women in a study in South Los Angeles have reported using personal care products that contain formaldehyde-releasing preservatives. Given that formaldehyde is ...

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, ...

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 ...

It also found that breathing formaldehyde fumes also increased cancer risks by a small amount. However, the ProPublica report released this week says those risks may be significantly greater.

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 ...

But the agency responsible for protecting the public from the harms of chemicals has significantly underestimated the dangers posed by formaldehyde, a ProPublica investigation has found.. The EPA is ...

The University of California San Francisco has agreed to pay $15 million to settle allegations that medics mistakenly mixed her anesthetic with chemical formaldehyde, according to a Dec. 5 report from ...

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.

Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. Little is being done to curb the risk ... Too sick to work, she lost her job as a dental assistant.

Formaldehyde threatens everyone as it pollutes the air we all breathe and leaks from products long after they enter our homes. ... Too sick to work, she lost her job as a dental assistant.

Earlier this year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its 2024 Draft Risk Assessment for formaldehyde prepared under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (EPA 2024 Draft ...