Very badly. Professor Ranson says when enzymes in the human body break down methanol, it turns into formaldehyde and formic acid. These compounds are used as embalming fluids by scientists.

He told The Current that drinking even a small amount of methanol is poisonous, as your body breaks it down first into formaldehyde, and then formic acid. "Both of those agents are toxic to all ...

This can allow the body “to vent methanol from the lungs and some through the kidneys, and a little through sweat.” It’s crucial to avoid the production of toxic levels of formaldehyde ...

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Methanol is an industrial chemical found in ... This metabolism creates toxic by-products called formaldehyde, formate and formic acid. These build up, attacking nerves and organs which can ...

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Methanol is one of the substances that we ... the second and third steps are catalyzed by formaldehyde dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase. These enzymes require NAD (nicotinamide adenine ...

A warning to area residents to avoid contact with local streams came several hours after officials responded to the spill.