Documentation

California Air Resources Board (ARB)
Proposed Toxin Control Measures to Reduce Formaldehyde Emissions from Particle Board/Composite Wood
Actual Official Statistics on Cancer Cases in Children & Adults due from Formaldehyde Exposure from Particle Board (Page 31):
https://www.arb.ca.gov/board/books/2007/042607/07-4-3pres.pdf

American Cancer Society
Note per A.C.: A substance that causes cancer or helps cancer grow is called a carcinogen.
Here is what expert agencies say about cancer-causing potential of formaldehyde:
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) The NTP lists formaldehyde as a carcinogen
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) The IARC concludes that formaldehyde is "Carcinogenic to Humans" based on higher risks of nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemia
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified formaldehyde as a "Probable Human Carcinogen"
The National Cancer Institute based on research concludes that exposure to formaldehyde may cause leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia in Humans.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/formaldehyde.html

USA Consumer Product Safety Commission
2015 Update Report on Formaldehyde Materials
http://www.simplecloset.com/usa_consumer_protection_report.htm (Abridged Version)
http://www.simplecloset.com/an_update_on_formaldehyde-update03102015.pdf (Full Version)

California Environmental Protection Agency
Report on Composite Wood Products (Particle Board, MDF)
http://www.simplecloset.com/formaldehyde_in_particle_board.htm

US EPA
Formaldehyde, Get the Facts
https://www.epa.gov/formaldehyde

Agency of Toxic Substances & Disease Registry
How Likely is Formaldehyde to Cause Cancer?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) determined in 2011 that formaldehyde is a known human carcinogen based on sufficient human and animal inhalation studies.
https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tf.asp?id=219&tid=39 Paragraph 6

The Best Organic Lifestyle
Is Furniture Toxic? What you Need to Know.
https://thebestorganiclifestyle.com/is-furniture-toxic-what-you-need-to-know

Keeper of the Home
How to Protect your Family from the Dangers of Formaldehyde
https://keeperofthehome.org/how-to-protect-your-family-from-the-dangers-of-formaldehyde/

Critical Environment / Cetci Magazine
What is Formadehyde?
http://www.critical-environment.com/blog/what-is-formaldehyde/

Pure Living Space
Cut Household Formaldehyde with Nine Proven Ways
https://purelivingspace.com/blogs/home-air-quality/cut-household-formaldehyde-with-nine-proven-ways

Healthy House on the Block
How to Avoid One of Your Home's Most Dangerous Toxins: Formaldehyde
http://www.healthyhouseontheblock.com/blog/how-to-avoid-one-of-your-homes-most-dangerous-toxins-formaldehyde

ThoughtCo
10 Molecules You Don't Want to Mess With (Dangerous Chemicals)
#10 Formaldehyde (Listed right after Strychnine)
https://www.thoughtco.com/dangerous-chemicals-to-avoid-609291

ThoughCo
List of Deadly Poisons
Ranked 7th most Deadly....Formaldehyde
https://www.thoughtco.com/list-of-poisons-609279

University of Illinois
57 Ways to Protect your Home Environment
http://www.thisland.illinois.edu/57ways/57ways_46.html (Use Solid Wood Furniture)

Cody Design Studio
Health Benefits of Solid Wood
http://codydesignstudio.com/blog/benefits-of-solid-wood-furniture

Branch Basics
23 Sources of Formaldehyde to Remove from Your Home, Starting Right Now
https://branchbasics.com/blog/2015/04/23-sources-of-formaldehyde-to-remove/

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
A National Effort to Protect Families from Toxic Chemicals
http://saferchemicals.org/chemicals/formaldehyde/

Natural News
Twelve Highly Toxic Chemicals to Banish from Your Home
https://www.naturalnews.com/041928_toxic_chemicals_home_environmental_health.html

Parents Magazine
10 Harmful Chemicals to Avoid
Here's a look at some of the most dangerous chemicals lurking in your home -- and how you can reduce your child's exposure to them.
https://www.parents.com/health/injuries/safety/harmful-chemicals-to-avoid/

Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU, network of experts in children's environmental health)
Children's Potential Exposures to Formaldehyde from Building Furnishings
Summaries of risks of formaldehyde exposure to children
https://deohs.washington.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Formaldehyde_Community_Factsheet.pdf

State of California
Formaldehyde in Furniture Products
Details and warning from the State of California regarding formaldehyde
https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/formaldehyde-furniture-products

The National Law Review
EPA draws link between Low-Dose Formaldehyde exposure and Cancer
Dated: Wednesday, April 20, 2022
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/epa-draws-link-between-low-dose-formaldehyde-exposure-and-cancer

Seattle Times
That Formaldehyde Feeling
Author: Susan Mcgrath
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19911006&slug=1309368&fbclid=IwAR0yVm36N8SYmEA56xvys4LsRWUrlZh4kst2MQm9BiNYOpnVm9IBQAW9swc

The Hill
Highly anticipated EPA draft says Formaldehyde causes cancer
By Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, April 2022
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3267736-highly-anticipated-epa-draft-calls-formaldehyde-a-carcinogen/

Do It Yourself. com
Everything you need to know about Particle Board Outgassing
Details regarding formaldehyde in particle board
https://www.doityourself.com/stry/everything-you-need-to-know-about-particle-board-outgassing

DAILY MAIL.com
IKEA uses a staggering 1% of the world's wood every year to make particle board furniture
Under 25% of this wood is sustainable, but working to bring that to 50%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357216/IKEA-uses-staggering-1-worlds-wood-year.html

The Guardian
Our MDF Furniture brought toxic fumes into our home
Richard Szwagrzak and Tracey Logan are trying to find out whether the problems they experienced with MDF are happening to others.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/feb/09/mdf-furniture-toxic-fumes-formaldehyde