The US Environmental Protection Agency released an updated draft risk assessment earlier this month that proposes managing ...

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk ...

Occupational formaldehyde exposure was linked to cognitive deficits at relatively young ages in a French cohort study. Adults ages 45 and older had a higher risk of global cognitive impairment if they ...

A variety of jobs expose people to formaldehyde, a strong-smelling gas used in manufacturing wood and chemical products, plastics and in other applications. A new study suggests that long-term ...

But, while it plays a vital role in pathology services across the UK, the US Environmental Protection Agency ruled that formaldehyde posed an “unreasonable risk of injury to human health” last year, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has been evaluating the link between formaldehyde and leukemia, a type of blood cancer, for more than a decade, but it has not yet reached a final decision. The ...

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden ...

Formaldehyde is carcinogenic to humans, a draft risk assessment released April 14 by the US Environmental Protection Agency concludes. The review, conducted by the agency’s Integrated Risk Information ...

A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no ...