From THINK PROGRESS:

Large manufacturers and chemical producers have lobbied to stop the National Institutes of Health from classifying formaldehyde as a carcinogen.

A wide body of research has linked the chemical to cancer, but industrial polluters have prevented regulation of this harmful chemical.

Last year, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported that billionaire David Koch, whose company Georgia Pacfic (a subsidiary of Koch Industries) is one of the country’s top producers of formaldehyde, was appointed to the NIH cancer board at a time when the NIH delayed action on the chemical.

How did this happen?  Someone was asleep at the switch.

Yesterday, the NIH finally handed down a report officially classifying formaldehyde as a carcinogen [...]

sources: Hysterical Raisins and  THINK PROGRESS

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