The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several ...

An estimated 50% of sterile medical devices in the U.S. are treated with ethylene oxide. It is also a known carcinogen.

The Biden era policy moved to reduce emissions by nearly 90 percent as the chemical, when exposed to it long-term ...

The EPA's sole function is to protect Americans from environmental health threats, and yet again and again it backs ...

The Trump administration proposed Friday to loosen rules surrounding emissions of a cancer-causing gas from sterilizer plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment.

The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to scrap Biden-era regulations on ethylene oxide, a gas used in medical sterilization plants that has been linked to cancer. The agency under the Biden ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is proposing to lift some limits on the use of ethylene oxide, a ...

The study involving 1,106 newborns from five countries examined the impact of ethylene oxide exposure during the last three months of pregnancy on foetal development and birth outcomes This new study ...

Last month, Sterigenics and its parent company, Sotera Health, agreed to pay $35 million to settle cases filed by 79 people who claim that exposure to ethylene oxide (“EtO”) from a medical Sterigenics ...

Sterigenics, its parent company and a corporate predecessor should pay $346 million for exposing a Willowbrook woman and thousands of others to cancer-causing ethylene oxide, her attorney urged a jury ...

An estimated 50% of sterile medical devices in the U.S. are treated with ethylene oxide. It is also a known carcinogen.