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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 ...

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 ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening regulation of ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas used to sterilize medical devices. (J. David Ake/Getty Images) Over the past two years, Madeline Beal ...

Nearly two decades after federal scientists concluded ethylene oxide is far more dangerous than previously thought, President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to dramatically reduce emissions from ...

Medtronic and Boston Scientific are just two of the many companies that use ethylene oxide to sterilize their devices and equipment. Brooklyn Park-based Ametek Mocon makes a device that can measure ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Lakewood business that sterilizes medical equipment with cancer-causing ethylene oxide must slash its air emissions after the Environmental Protection ...

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The toxic gas ethylene oxide, at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, was detected across parts of Louisiana with a cutting-edge mobile air-testing lab. The concentrations ...