ECHA Committee Takes Lighter View On Formaldehyde Than U.S. Agencies
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment adopts an opinion to classify formaldehyde as “presumed to have carcinogenic potential,” a decidedly less rigid stance than U.S. regulators, which have deemed the ingredient a “known human carcinogen.”
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