We sought to determine whether formalin disinfection of prostate biopsy needles between cores reduces post-biopsy urinary tract infections (UTIs). We reviewed a single-surgeon experience of ...

A study has found excessive formalin in seasonal fruits like mango, litchi and blackberry sold at shops in different areas of the capital. Even shops with signboards reading “chemical-free fruits” ...

On 19 May 2015, a Facebook user published a photoset of crabs to his timeline along with the following message: TIP OF THE DAY: WATCH FOR CRABS! When buying crabs in the market look for injection ...

Fruits are known to be foods of heaven. Fruits are being considered as nature’s best gift for human beings. Everyone knows that fruits are delicious, that is why, all generations of people are fond of ...

Taking advantage of loopholes in the existing law, a section of traders is importing chemicals like paraformaldehyde that can be used as a substitute for formalin. Though import of formalin, a highly ...

When foreign news sources spoke about mercury levels in fish, it seemed very far away from our shores. But now, formalin, a cancer-inducing chemical used illegally to preserve fish, is right here: in ...

People living in the coastal areas, it is time for you to start seeing your fish with a suspicious eye, your fish could be lined with formalin! Okay, mercury in fish was a reason to worry about, but ...

The Assam government has banned import and sale of fish from Andhra Pradesh and other states for a period of 10 days after cancer-causing chemical formalin content was found in the imported fish. The ...

Who was Ekaterina Fedyaeva and how did she die? Ekaterina Feyaeva was a 27-year-old from the western Russian city of Ulyanovsk. She was supposed to be put on a saline drip during surgery but instead, ...

On 9 April 2018, a number of tabloid-like news reports suggested that a Russian woman had been "embalmed alive" after doctors mistakenly administered formalin intravenously instead of saline: Russian ...