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

The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a set of new restrictions on facilities that use the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide, a colorless, odorless gas that is used to sterilize ...

What is Ethylene Oxide? As I discussed, ethylene oxide is a chemical found everywhere in the environment and produced naturally in our bodies.It is used in many industries and is particularly useful ...

There are about 90 sterilizing plants in the U.S. that use a cancer-causing gas called ethylene oxide. Some say new proposed regulations don't go far enough.

For many complex medical devices such as endoscopes, sterilizing with ethylene oxide is the only method that does the job without damaging the device during the process. Approximately 50% of all ...

EPA seeks to restrict a toxic sterilizer, despite industry red flags. Ethylene oxide pollutes poor Gulf Coast communities but is considered essential to sterilizing equipment for hospitals and clinics ...

Ethylene oxide is currently the only way to sterilize medical devices that can’t be exposed to steam. It’s used to sanitize 20 billion devices in the U.S. per year, such as pacemakers ...

The agency found extremely high concentrations of ethylene oxide in some areas, with one containing 121 micrograms per cubic meter of air, which is more than 400 times higher than the US national ...

This story was produced in partnership with Atlanta News Firs t. Thousands of warehouse workers across the U.S. are likely regularly exposed to the cancer-linked chemical ethylene oxide. More than ...

Ethylene oxide is used to sterilize about half of all U.S. medical supplies, including billions of syringes, heart valves, pacemakers, and feeding and breathing tubes.

In the first trial in hundreds of Georgia lawsuits, retired truck driver Gary Walker, 75, contends emmissions from ethylene oxide caused his cancer.

Sterigenics, its parent company and a corporate predecessor should pay $363 million in damages for exposing the Willowbrook woman and thousands of others to cancer-causing ethylene oxide pollution ...