Guidance

Formaldehyde: health effects, incident management and toxicology

Information on formaldehyde (also known as methanal and methylene glycol) for use in responding to chemical incidents.

From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published
1 July 2014
Last updated
22 July 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Formaldehyde: general information

HTML

Formaldehyde: incident management

Ref: GOV-16659

PDF, 370 KB, 21 pages

Formaldehyde: toxicological overview

HTML

Details

These documents provide information on the health effects of exposure, the chemical’s toxicity and material for responding to a chemical incident.

Updates to this page

Published 1 July 2014
Last updated 22 July 2024 + show all updates

  1. The 'general overview' and 'toxicological information' have been converted from pdf to html format, no changes were made to the content. The 'incident management' content has been updated.

  2. Updated general information document.

  3. Updated incident management document.

  4. Removed 'Formaldehyde: general information, incident management and toxicology' as the toxicology guidance has been updated.

  5. Updated toxicological overview.

  6. First published.

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