Trump extends compliance deadlines for sterilization facilities using ethylene oxide due to national security concerns.

The Sterigenics subsidiary of Broadview Heights-based Sotera Health Co. (Nasdaq: SHC) has settled more ethylene oxide claims ...

Plants in Cobb County and Covington have been the subject of lawsuits by cancer patients claiming the release of ethylene ...

President Donald Trump is temporarily exempting medical sterilization facilities that use ethylene oxide from tighter emissions standards, including plants in Georgia.

Ethylene oxide, a gas commonly used to sterilize medical equipment and spices, poses health risks to workers and communities surrounding sterilization facilities, the US Environmental Protection ...

The EPA says its proposal will reduce ethylene oxide emissions by roughly 80% by targeting 86 medical sterilization facilities across the United States. The companies will also have to measure the ...

Ethylene oxide has long been linked to cancers of the ... Medical sterilization facilities came under scrutiny in 2016 when the EPA published an assessment finding ethylene oxide to be 30 ...

More ethylene oxide regulations could be coming soon. The EPA said Thursday it will finalize new rules for chemical facilities that produce the gas themselves in the coming weeks.

A person walks in front of a medical device sterilization facility in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Viant Medical facility stopped using ethylene oxide, a toxic gas, in 2019.

The Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Association, an industry group, said in a statement that ethylene oxide has been used for decades by the health care community to sterilize a wide variety of ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Sterilization of Anesthesia Equipment with Ethylene Oxide.

The battle over the sterilization agent ethylene oxide began like a sequel to "Erin Brockovich" -- local activists shut down big chemical plants over cancer fears -- and then the coronavirus hit.