“…Many different procedures have been proposed to determine formaldehyde in air, food, water, and wood in recent years, such as spectrophotometry [4][5][6], fluorometry [7], polarography, gas chromatography (GC) [8,9], high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) [10,[11][12][13], capillary electrophoresis (CE) [14][15][16], etc. Spectrophotometry reported greatly as a simple and convenient method, but has the drawback of poor selectivity [17].…”