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Eighty-eight facilities, including one in Hauppauge, would be required to upgrade their monitoring and treatment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many medical devices need to be sterile to be used safely. But sterilizing a pacemaker, catheter, or other device with steam or ...

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is inviting public comments on a proposal that limits ethylene oxide in food additives. The suggested limit would be the same as in Europe to balance food safety with ...

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 ...

Scientists, clinicians and residents of communities near medical device sterilization plants called for the EPA not to weaken ...

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, ...

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 ...

Syensqo and Shell Chemicals Europe B.V. have joined forces to supply mass-balanced, low-carbon ethylene oxide (EO) solutions for the agricultural and industrial markets, enabling reduced product ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized tighter standards and enhanced worker protections Thursday for medical sterilization facilities that use the colorless gas ethylene oxide (EtO), ...