Formaldehyde Facts

Formaldehyde Facts is FCI's small space on the Web to talk about formaldehyde. We'll do our best to separate fact from fiction, and cut through all the clutter you get from the mainstream media when it comes to the industrial uses of the molecule, one of the most versatile industrial chemicals known to man.

Revisiting Formaldehyde and Vaccines

October 13, 2009

It's cold and flu season again, and that means here at Formaldehyde Facts, we're dealing with stories in the media about how people are refusing to take vaccines because they contain formaldehyde. Of course, we've dealt with this issue in the past, and suggest that you review our complete archive on the topic by clicking here. For a good primer...

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Formaldehyde Helps Image the Human Genome

October 13, 2009

At FCI, we spend a lot of time defending the molecule and its legitimate uses across a host of industries. It's all part of the job, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate a story like this one that appeared yesterday in BioITWorld.com and a number of other online publications:

Using a new technique, researchers revealed the first complete
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Drywall: Not Made With Formaldehyde-Based Resins

October 13, 2009

One of the sources that we regularly run into here at Formaldehyde Facts is InjuryBoard.com, a nationwide network of blogs run by trial attorneys. Earlier this week, Camryn Hansen, a writer for an InjuryBoard.com blog run out of Cherry Hill, N.J. wrote the following about the pending Senate legislation introduced earlier this year concerning the...

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San Jose City Council Rejects Linda Kincaid on Formaldehyde Testing

October 09, 2009

For a number of months now we've been following the activities of Linda Kincaid, an industrial hygienist working in the San Francisco Bay Area who has been testing area homes there for formaldehyde in indoor air. As FCI has already outlined, the industry believes that Ms. Kincaid's testing protocols — or lack thereof depending on who you talk to...

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