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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:42:47 -0800
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From: Gordon Kroemer <gkroeme**At_Symbol_Here**LINFIELD.EDU>
Subject: Re: 2 RE: [DCHAS-L] Paraformaldehyde - carcinogen or not?
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I beg your pardon. If formaldehyde is being exhaled, the last time I
checked, it would have to pass the mucous tissues of the mouth or nose.
Unless you have another way of respiring.
Gordon J. Kroemer, CSP, NRCC-CHO
Director, Office of Environment, Health & Safety
Linfield College
900 SE Baker Street, A468
McMinnville, OR 97128
503-883-2431
503-883-2781 fax
On 04/12/09 04:33, "List Moderator" wrote:
> From: "Allan Astrup Jensen"
> Date: December 4, 2009 3:31:28 AM EST
> Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] Paraformaldehyde - carcinogen or not?
>
>> Just to refresh the memory of some folks, recall formaldehyde is present
in
>> the 1 carbon metabolic cycle so our bodies contain lots of formaldehyde.
I
>> understand that formaldehyde has been measured in exhaled breath at 1-2
ppb.
>> The dose does make the poison!!
>
>
> OK, Roger, but the internal exposures are not gaseous hitting mucous tiss
ues
> of the nose!
>
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> Allan Astrup Jensen
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> From: "David Bunzow"
> Date: December 4, 2009 6:11:48 AM EST
> Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] Paraformaldehyde - carcinogen or not?
>
> =8Awhich is why the Delaney clause never made good toxicological sense. We
> live, therefore we die.
> David
>
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