Ethylene oxide (EO) is a versatile compound used to make ethylene glycol and numerous consumer products, including household cleaners and personal care items. Also used to sterilize medical equipment ...

While ethylene oxide (EO) has long been subject to federal regulation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently sharpened its focus on EO emissions. Despite publishing its plans to ...

(CBS)-- What is ethylene oxide, the cancer-causing agent at the center of the Sterigenics case? The chemical is used to sterilize medical equipment. According to the Illinois Environmental Protection ...

Sterilization technicians and plant staff who worked with ethylene oxide face a serious health question: could routine ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state lawmakers promote their newly adopted restrictions on cancer-causing ethylene oxide as the “toughest in the nation.” Lobbyists for chemical companies and manufacturers go ...

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new regulations to govern the more than 80 industrial facilities across the nation that use ethylene oxide, a highly potent and toxic ...

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation that postpones compliance with a rule designed to tighten emissions of ethylene oxide at companies that use this gas to sterilize medical equipment.

For more than a year, medical device manufacturer Becton Dickinson has been working with government officials in Tucson, Arizona, to erect a plant that would sterilize products vital to the supply ...

Over the next decade, as she moved to Seattle and climbed the corporate ladder at the firm, she had no idea that she had been exposed to ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical used to sterilize medical ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is warning Fort Myers residents about a local plant's ethylene oxide emissions. The EPA said it has determined that residents living near the American ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. For more than a year, medical device manufacturer Becton ...