On 2017 Sep 09, Clive Bates commented:

The authors of the original study Jensen RP, 2015 should now correct or retract their findings. The key weakness in their work was an attention-grabbing calculation of formaldehyde-related excess cancer risk. It was this that gained the authors world wide media coverage.

The problem for the authors is that cancer is a human condition and their calculation is based exposures measured by a lab machine in conditions that no humans would be able to tolerate.

It is thus a wholly flawed and misleading paper. Yet it has been cited 141 times as of - 9 Sept 2017, and continues to mislead and contaminate the literature with its baseless assertions about formaldehyde exposure and cancer risk.

On 2017 Sep 09, Clive Bates commented:

The authors of the original study Jensen RP, 2015 should now correct or retract their findings. The key weakness in their work was an attention-grabbing calculation of formaldehyde-related excess cancer risk. It was this that gained the authors world wide media coverage.

The problem for the authors is that cancer is a human condition and their calculation is based exposures measured by a lab machine in conditions that no humans would be able to tolerate.

It is thus a wholly flawed and misleading paper. Yet it has been cited 141 times as of - 9 Sept 2017, and continues to mislead and contaminate the literature with its baseless assertions about formaldehyde exposure and cancer risk.