If you do not want formaldehyde, don't eat ripe fruit.
This Viewpoint, while seemingly logical without investigation, is not logical once you look deeper. Formaldehyde in these amounts is just as safe as none. You get more in your diet than what is injected.
For example, there are various toxic chemicals in tomatoes, but at even large amounts of dietary tomato eating, your risk is the same as not eating any of them. Should we look for tomatoes that are low in these compounds?
Toxicity is really poorly understood in general. EVERYTHING is toxic in some amount. Oxygen, water, etc all have toxic levels. Formaldehyde at these amounts provides the same risk as none, so why remove it and make it more expensive?
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