If every commercial sterilization facility closed tomorrow, the public wouldn’t be appreciably safer from ethylene oxide emissions.

The time-honored methods of sterilization that utilize heat, such as autoclaving, are highly injurious to much of the equipment employed in anesthesia, particularly, the parts made of rubber. Cold ...

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.

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The EPA is overdue to issue new regulations for ethylene oxide, say environmental advocates, which is used to decontaminate medical tools.

Ethylene oxide and the EPA Ethylene oxide (EtO) is a chemical found everywhere, produced naturally by our bodies and plants, along with waterlogged soil and fires. It is used in many consumer products ...

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The EPA has proposed new standards to reduce exposure to EtO, a cancer-causing compound that has been connected to a South Memphis plant.