The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Tuesday to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a set of new restrictions on facilities that use the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide, a colorless, odorless gas that is used to ...
Sterilization Services of Tennessee, one of the sterilization facilities identified by the EPA as a higher-emitter of the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide (EtO), uses three different vents — one ...
EPA's new, more stringent regulations come after agency said there was an elevated cancer risk around Kingsbury medical device sterlization plant Exterior of the Sterigenics medical equipment ...
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Tuesday to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of ...
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 ...
University of Illinois Chicago researchers have developed a new way to convert 100% of captured carbon dioxide into ethylene. The team’s approach surpasses the net-zero carbon goal of other carbon ...
The emission of carbon dioxide (CO₂) is one of the primary factors contributing to air pollution and climate change on Earth.