Someone has tried to frighten you with formaldehyde. After all, it's a nasty-smelling chemical that gets used to embalm corpses, right? Sounds icky. Guess what. Your own body produces formaldehyde. If it didn't you would die. read more
Certain refined processed foods like sugars and oils. Formaldehyde is produced by all living things as it is involved in alcohol metabolism, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, and amino acid synthesis, among other things. The human body maintains a steady state of formaldehyde in cells and in the blood. read more
Formaldehyde is mostly inhaled, and is present naturally in the air at very low levels, using products with formaldehyde in will, for a very short period of time, raise the amount of formaldehyde in the air. read more