What are the effects of formalin

I believe everyone is familiar with formalin. This drug plays a great role both in medicine and agricultural production, and its application is quite extensive. However, there are now many illegal vendors who use formalin to make some food, such as chicken feet, which people love to eat. If it is consumed for a long time, it will cause great harm to people's health, especially for female friends. It will cause gynecological diseases. The consequences are quite serious. In addition, formalin is a chronic poison that will cause damage to various organs of the body. Therefore, to avoid taking this drug, the most important thing is to understand the specific effects of formalin.

Specific role:

In fiber products, formalin is mainly used as a dyeing auxiliary and a resin finishing agent to improve the anti-wrinkle and anti-shrinkage effects. Medical experts believe that it is a chronic poisoning drug. Long-term exposure to low doses of formalin can cause chronic respiratory diseases, menstrual disorders in women, weakened physical fitness in newborns, and even nasopharyngeal cancer. High concentrations of formalin are toxic to the nervous system, immune system, liver, etc. It is also used by unscrupulous businesses for processing aquatic products and as preservatives in some foods.

Formalin is a broad-spectrum seed disinfectant. The industrial product is a colorless or light yellow liquid with a strong pungent odor. The medicinal product formalin is a colorless, transparent liquid that is highly irritating to the skin and eyes.

To prevent and control anthracnose of melons, brown streak disease of eggplant, verticillium wilt, anthracnose, blight of cucumber, wilt, black spot, and vine blight, soak the seeds in 100 times diluted 40% formalin for 30 minutes, wash off the solution on the seeds with clean water after soaking, germinate and sow or dry them for later use.

To prevent and control early blight, late blight, scab, bacterial wilt, stem base rot, powdery scab of potato, anthracnose of beans and peas, and root rot of cabbage, soak the seeds in 200 times diluted 40% formalin for 30 minutes, wash them with clean water after soaking, and sow them after drying. Formaldehyde is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Under normal circumstances, it is in a gaseous state and has the characteristics of strongly irritating the eye membranes and respiratory organs.