Over the past two years, Madeline Beal has heard frustration and even bewilderment during public meetings about ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas that is used to sterilize half of the medical ...

The Biden era policy moved to reduce emissions by nearly 90 percent as the chemical, when exposed to it long-term ...

Ethylene oxide is a widely used chemical made in the U.S. by some of the industry’s global giants, including Dow Chemical, Huntsman, Shell and Union Carbide. Its main use is in the refining of other ...

Many medical devices need to be sterile to be used safely. But sterilizing a pacemaker, catheter, or other device with steam or heat could damage its structural integrity. So medical device ...

A chemical known to increase the risk of cancer is far more prevalent in the air along the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans than previously thought, a new study has found ...

In the past two years, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against companies based on their emissions of a chemical called ethylene oxide (often referred to as “EtO” or “EO”). Multiple facilities ...

(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 ...

An estimated 50% of sterile medical devices in the U.S. are treated with ethylene oxide. It is also a known carcinogen.

In the late 1980s, the aptly named Package Products Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, was facing a toxic problem. The consumer packaging company printed eye-catching candy wrappers, soft-drink ...

3M™ Steri-Vac™ Sterilizer/Aerator GSX Series ideal for in-house, small chamber sterilization ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life science companies continually evaluate their operations for ...