There are a few fundamental chemicals that are the building blocks to most thing that we use and one of them is ethylene oxide or EtO. EtO is used to make plastics, glycols, detergents, solvents, ...

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 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding a higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limits on the use of a carcinogenic gas called ethylene oxide. The hope is to reduce ethylene oxide emissions by 80%, which the agency said ...

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 ...

Less than a month after the FDA claimed jurisdiction in regulating ethylene oxide emissions at medical device sterilization facilities, an FDA director is now urging the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

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After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling ...

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation this month that delays a rule meant to tighten ethylene oxide emissions at companies that use the gas to sterilize medical equipment. The decision grants ...