The Food and Drug Administration is looking to ban chemical hair smoothing and straightening products that contain formaldehyde due to potential health impacts. "Use of hair smoothing products ...

UPDATE (January 5, 2026): The future of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 's proposed ban on hair-straightening products ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain ...

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The Food and Drug Administration has missed its deadline to propose banning formaldehyde in hair straightening products.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Do you know what is in the air you breathe? According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the most cancer-causing chemical you're breathing is formaldehyde. FOX13 learned ...

CHICAGO -- A move by the federal government may lead to some hair straighteners pulled from shelves, including products most popular with African American women. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The latest installment of chemophobic op-eds from Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times homes in on formaldehyde. Kristof’s basic premise is that there is an industry-led conspiracy afoot to bury ...

We may know it from high school biology class (think: frog dissection) but formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, may also be found in your home. (Photo: Getty Images) In Liquidators’ flooring, ...