Formaldehyde causes blood and leukemia

Workers exposed to formaldehyde are at high risk of leukemia or lymphoma, US government scientists published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on May 12.

Research on 25,000 workers at formaldehyde factories and resin formaldehyde factories showed that those exposed to the highest levels had a 37% higher risk of cancer than those with the least degree of exposure.

Research shows that exposure to this chemical increases the risk of lymphoma (Hodgkin lymphoma), multiple myeloma and myeloid leukemia.

However, the formaldehyde industry represented by the Formaldehyde Council has denied and said that the results of the study were not sufficient to confirm a clear relationship between formaldehyde and cancer.

The council also affirmed that the US government has confirmed this substance in the 'Overall scientific assessment of formaldehyde health effects of the National Academy of Sciences.

Formaldehyde is manufactured industrially by oxidizing with methanol catalyst and used in the construction materials industry, preservatives and sterilizers or plastic product molds.

In 2004, WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancel (IARC), classified formaldehyde into a group of human carcinogens, including throat cancer, laryngeal cancer and parts of the respiratory system . To date, scientists have discovered a new harmful effect of this chemical on humans.

Formaldehyde, also known as Phoc-Mon, once shocked a public opinion in Vietnam for some time, when authorities discovered it was in pho.

Because formaldehyde exists in solution or other compounds and only vaporizes when conditions are appropriate (when humidity and temperature rise), the existence of formaldehyde in the indoor environment is always higher than that of the external environment. God. Therefore, formaldehyde infection for health is also continuous and cumulative.