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The Environmental Protection Agency has been trying since 1998 to update its official assessment of formaldehyde, which was first written in 1989 and describes the chemical as a “probable” rather than a “known” carcinogen, even though three major scientific reviews now link it to leukemia and strengthen its ties to other forms of cancer.
After the agency’s efforts were repeatedly stalled by the chemical industry and Congress, a new administration and a new EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, seemed close to finalizing the EPA’s assessment last summer — until Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) began raising objections on behalf of the formaldehyde industry.
People should be more concerned over the push of artificial sweetners in diet soda pop and powdered soft drinks on children and what they do to the body. Seriously. They are significantly more dangerous the HFCS.
get that stuff out of your environment. Do a household inventory. It's found in bedsheets to keep them wrinkle free. Educate yourselves, and start chucking.
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