Sterilization Services of Tennessee, one of the sterilization facilities identified by the EPA as a higher-emitter of the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide (EtO), uses three different vents — one ...
An EPA map showing areas of concern near the Sterigenics sterilization plant in Kingsbury. The plant uses ethylene oxide gas in its process, which is known to cause cancer from long term exposure. The ...
Having adopted stringent air emission controls on commercial sterilizers that use ethylene oxide (EtO), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now adopted further controls on workplace exposure ...
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Tuesday to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of ...
In 2023, the EPA proposed new regulations for medical device sterilizing facilities that use ethylene oxide, finalizing that rule this March. The rule sets limits on 88 commercial sterilization ...
EPA cut use of cancer-causing sterilizer prolific in med-tech. A Minnesota company might have a fix.
Medtronic and Boston Scientific are just two of the many companies that use ethylene oxide to sterilize their devices and equipment. Brooklyn Park-based Ametek Mocon makes a device that can measure ...
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.
There are a few fundamental chemicals that are the building blocks to most thing that we use and one of them is ethylene oxide or EtO. EtO is used to make plastics, glycols, detergents, solvents, ...
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limits on the use of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide. The hope is to reduce ethylene oxide emissions by 80%, which the agency said ...
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