Taking human buccal cells as testing material to study genotoxicity of gaseous formaldehyde with comet test as destination effect, and adopting gas pouring flow of imitation type for the test in vitro. At 0.5mg/m3 and 1.0mg/m3 formaldehyde possesses breaking action when it has been toxicity-contaminated for 1h; and at 3.0mg/m3 possesses obvious cross-link action. This indicates that formaldehyde could ...