Formaldehyde releasers [Formaldehydabspalter]

Abstract

The following evidence-based recommendations help to evaluate the effects of an allergy to bufexamac with regard to the excluded job possibilities as necessary for the evaluation of the reduction in earning capacity in occupational skin diseases according to BK No. 5101, German regulation for occupational diseases. Formaldehyde releasers are used in cosmetics, personal-care products and skin cleansers. In the industry they are used in paints, varnishes, polishes, cleaning agents and particularly in cooling lubricants used in metal working. Contact allergic reactions to formaldehyde releasers can be directed against the initial substance or against the released formaldehyde. In most occupational areas the contact with formaldehyde releasers can be avoided. In most cases it should be possible to replace a product conserved by a formaldehyde releaser by an equivalent product without formaldehyde releasers. The effects of an allergy to one ore more formaldehyde releasers without coexisting formaldehyde allergy can normally be considered as mild, as far as a formaldehyde allergy is excluded. © 2008 Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle.