In recent months, several medical device sterilization plants have been forced to shut down among rising concerns that ethylene oxide, a chemical used to sterilize more than half of the country's ...

Cancer risks from ethylene oxide emissions at a Lehigh County facility have decreased over the past four years but are not entirely eliminated, Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday.

EtO is used in gaseous form to sterilize roughly half of all medical equipment manufactured in the U.S., including at least some nasal swabs used in diagnostic tests used to detect COVID-19. It is ...

Despite decades of scientific evidence linking ethylene oxide to cancer and other serious health effects, OSHA’s 40-year-old ...

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents in Lakewood that long-term exposure to a toxic chemical used by a local commercial sterilizing company could significantly increase their ...

Recently proposed US EPA regulations address air quality and point source emissions from industries that use ethylene oxide (EtO). As rules get finalized, companies should be prepared to adopt new ...

Ethylene Oxide, or EtO, is a known human carcinogen used in various chemical processes and to sterilize equipment.

Bills requiring companies to disclose when any amount of the toxic gas ethylene oxide is emitted unanimously passed both the Georgia House and Senate on Thursday. House Bill 927 and Senate Bill 426 ...

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