Formaldehyde+(Silver+Class)

media type="custom" key="635615"Formaldehyde is an organic compound containing a [|terminal carbonyl group]. Formaldehyde is found in cigarettes, tobacco products, gas cookers, and open fireplaces. It’s also used in a lot of industries, hospitals, and laboratories. It can also be in household objects such as fiberglass, carpets, permanent press fabrics, paper products and few household cleaners. Formaldehyde at room temperature is a colorless flammable gas that has a distinct smell. Small amounts of formaldehyde are naturally produced in our bodies. It’s used in the production of fertilizer, paper, plywood, and unrea formaldehyde resins. Sometimes it’s even in some of our foods as preservatives and in products around the house such as antiseptics, medicines, and cosmetics. Other terms of Formaldehyde are methanal, methylene oxide, oxymethyline, methyladelhyde, and oxomethane. Some of the problems that formaldehyde can cause are numerous. For one it is a sensitizing agent that can cause an immune system response until initial exposure. Also a [|carcinogen]  that is linked to nasal and lung cancer. High exposure of this is very bad for your eyes, nose, and throat, which makes you cough and wheeze. It says that subsequent exposure can cause server allergic reactions in the skin, eyes and respiratory tract. Ingesting formaldehyde can be fatal, and long-term exposure to low levels in the air can cause asthma like breathing problems and skin irritation (lots of itching). The EPA recommends that an adult shouldn’t drink water that has more then 1 milligram per liter of water. A child shouldn’t drink water containing more then 10 mg per liter for one day or 5 mg per liter for 10 days. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set a permissible exposure limit for formaldehyde of .75 part per million for a 8 hour workday, 40 hour workweek. Since formaldehyde is a carcinogen (cancer causing) it shouldn’t be recommended to have only a certain amount of. But simple banned all together. The products that we use it in (first paragraph) are not items that are necessary in our everyday lives anyhow. But at the very least should have a label or sign that says on the product that it is a carcinogen. It seems that the federal government care more about money then its people obviously because its giving us cancer products to buy. The only city in the US that has restrictions on it is [|Minnesota], which laws are only to restrict the amount used. Formaldehyde is exposed to us everyday and causes a serious threat to American lives. Should it not be banned? If you wish to not be in contact with formaldehyde simply just don’t buy formaldehyde products, don’t smoke, and the next time you buy furniture, ask them if it is a formaldehyde free substance.