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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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A proposal to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products that was scheduled to take place in April has not been released by the Food and Drug Administration, disregarding the agency’s own ...

In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one that causes far more cancer than any other, one that is so widespread that nobody in the U.S. is safe from it. It is a chemical so ...

Epigenetics, the chemical mechanisms that controls the activity of genes, allows our cells, tissues and organs to adapt to the changing circumstances of the environment around us. This advantage can ...