Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States.
The proposal would relax standards for facilities that use ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas, to sterilize medical devices ...
An estimated 50% of sterile medical devices in the U.S. are treated with ethylene oxide. It is also a known carcinogen.
Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump aims to loosen ethylene oxide standardsThe Trump administration proposed Friday to loosen rules ...
The repeal loosens standards for roughly 90 facilities that emit the toxic chemical ethylene oxide in neighborhoods across the U.S.
The EPA Friday issued a revised air emissions rule for facilities that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment, medicines, spices, dried foods, and certain other products.