The result is that even the EPA’s alarming estimates of cancer risk vastly underestimate — by as much as fourfold — the chances of formaldehyde causing cancer.
But four former government scientists with experience doing statistical analyses of health harms told ProPublica that the myeloid leukemia risk calculation was sound.
The agency’s sprawling assessment shows that, among scores of individual air pollutants, formaldehyde poses the greatest cancer risk — by far.
As the EPA admits, its cancer risk calculation fails to reflect the chances of developing myeloid leukemia.
Nationwide, that’s the average lifetime cancer risk from air pollution; formaldehyde accounts for most of it.
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