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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cutan Ocul Toxicol. 2019 Mar 15;38(2):112–117. doi: 10.1080/15569527.2018.1471485

Table 2.

Laboratory Evaluation: Formaldehyde Test Kit Strip1 reading from Undiluted Products as Compared to Total Releasable Formaldehyde GC/CI-MS Analyses.

Product Quantofix
Range: 0–200
mg/L
MQuant
Range: 0–100
mg/L
Serim
Range: 0, Trace-5
mg/L
Total Releasable
Formaldehyde
GC/CI-MS
mg/L
Shampoo A*# >200 >100 2.5 260.0
Shampoo B*# >200 >100 Trace 186.1
Shampoo C 10 10 0 8.1
Body Wash A# 20 40 0 33.6
Body Wash B 40–60 60 0 74.9
Hair and Body Wash 10 10 0 2.1
Hair Conditioner 0 0 0 0
Sunscreen B2 ? ? 0 0
1

Product color/composition interfered with reading the color change in the MColortest™, hence, could not be used.

2

Sunscreen gelled upon addition of the sodium hydroxide kit reagent

*

Product content label indicated a known formaldehyde releaser

#

Shampoo A, Shampoo B and Body Wash A were supplied by the patients/clinic.