# 2024-31571: EPA Finally Admits Formaldehyde Is Bad for You

2024-31571, Formaldehyde; Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSC); Notice of Availability, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-03, effective 2025-01-03 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31571
- Title: Formaldehyde; Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSC); Notice of Availability
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-03
- Effective: 2025-01-03
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

EPA Finally Admits Formaldehyde Is Bad for You

## Summary

The EPA just released its final report showing formaldehyde is risky to people’s health. Companies making, using, or selling formaldehyde need to watch out because the EPA will soon start rules to keep everyone safer. This means changes are coming that could affect how formaldehyde is handled, with deadlines and possible costs ahead.

## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing the availability of the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for formaldehyde. The purpose of risk evaluations under TSCA is to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, without consideration of costs or non-risk factors, including unreasonable risk to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations identified as relevant to the risk evaluation by EPA, under the conditions of use. The Agency used the best available science to prepare this final risk evaluation and has determined, based on the weight of scientific evidence, that formaldehyde presents an unreasonable risk of injury to human health. Under TSCA, EPA must initiate risk management actions to address the unreasonable risk.

## Effects PRIA read

- Formaldehyde: Unreasonable Health Risk: benefit, high. On January 3, 2025, EPA announced its final TSCA risk evaluation that found formaldehyde presents an unreasonable risk to human health. EPA said the risk is from non-cancer effects in workers and consumers from short-term skin and inhalation exposure and from cancer effects in workers from long-ter…
- Upcoming Rules Could Affect Formaldehyde Businesses: cost, medium. Because EPA found an unreasonable risk, it must initiate risk management actions under TSCA section 6(a) and will propose regulatory actions that could affect companies that manufacture, import, process, distribute, use, or dispose of formaldehyde. The docket notes reported production/import volume…

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## Sources
- [2024-31571 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/03/2024-31571/formaldehyde-risk-evaluation-under-the-toxic-substances-control-act-tsc-notice-of-availability)
- [2024-31571 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-03/pdf/2024-31571.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31571 (as of 2026-06-08).