It appears unlikely that formaldehyde is causative on the basis of its airway toxicology, e.g. (World Health Organization, 2010;Golden, 2011;Wolkoff and Nielsen, 2010;Paustenbach et al., 1997;Nielsen et al., 2013).
Combustion products (wood stoves) and mold spores would be more probable.
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Huge population exposed to formaldehyde in China. We are still working on this issue. However, the final result has not yet come out
Dear Zengli Zhang,
Thank you for this.
I only beg you to read thoroughly the available literature about formaldehyde, and then think about the biological plausability and alternative explanations.
Thank you.
Peder
Dear Peder Wolkoff,
Thank you for your advice. You did a good job in formaldehyde research.
Have a nice weekend,
Zengli
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