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The Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on certain hair straightening products, saying that they are linked to hormone-related cancers and can cause "long-term adverse health effects." ...

In April, the EPA published its draft Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Toxicological Review of Formaldehyde (inhalation), a 192-page document. The publication of this document raises issues ...

The US Food and Drug Administration will propose a ban on formaldehyde and substances that release this carcinogen from certain hair-straightening and hair-smoothing products. The announcement comes 7 ...

Common personal care and beauty products like lotions, soaps, shampoos, eyeliner, and even eyelash glue can contain formaldehyde or preservatives that release formaldehyde—a known carcinogen that has ...

NEW YORK -- The Food and Drug Administration could put a recommended ban on the chemical formaldehyde in hair-straightening products into effect by April. Cancer concerns linked to some products may ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Jan. 2 the final risk evaluation for formaldehyde conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA has determined ...

A panel of top US scientists has backed a US Environmental Protection Agency draft toxicological risk assessment review that found formaldehyde, a chemical with broad industrial uses, to be a human ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks researcher Kimberly Bertrand about hair relaxers containing formaldehyde and moves by the FDA to ban them. People use hair relaxers for many reasons - for day-to-day ...

In December 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency released the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for formaldehyde. A year later, in December 2025, the EPA ...