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
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  1. 22 July 2024

     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. 16 November 2017

     Updated general information document.

  3. 23 June 2017

     Updated incident management document.

  4. 10 January 2017

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

  5. 9 January 2017

     Updated toxicological overview.

  6. 1 July 2014

     First published.

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.