Despite decades of scientific evidence linking ethylene oxide to cancer and other serious health effects, OSHA’s 40-year-old exposure limits continue to leave medical sterilization and manufacturing ...

A team of surgeons transplanting a pig kidney into a brain dead patient, part of a growing field of research aimed at advancing cross-species transplants and closing ...

More than 340 facilities nationwide have asked the EPA for a break from regulations that limit hazardous emissions. Three facilities in the Southland have already been approved. The rule they are ...

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EtO litigation presents a dynamic landscape, with a growing body of literature about EtO’s purported toxicity and an increasing number of filed cases. Environmental Protection Agency and state-level ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (WJHL) — A federal lawsuit has been filed against Eastman Chemical Company, claiming that ethylene oxide emissions from the company’s Longview, Texas, plant caused the plaintiffs’ ...

The Sterigenics subsidiary of Broadview Heights-based Sotera Health Co. (Nasdaq: SHC) has settled more ethylene oxide claims related to its former plant in Willowbrook, Illinois. The cost of this ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — President Donald Trump, with an executive order last week, has reversed stricter standards that were put into place by the Environmental Protection Agency limiting the release of ...

Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, 2 more years to meet federal standards. A Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Environmental Protection ...

1. The use of ethylene oxide is critical for the sterilization of medical equipment, which protects patients against infection and the transmission of disease. The continued utilization of ethylene ...