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

The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments.

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

The proposal would relax standards for facilities that use ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas, to sterilize medical devices ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it’s preparing to loosen rules on emissions for ethylene oxide commercial ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to loosen limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, a gas used to ...

The proposal would roll back 2024 emission standards on about 90 plants that rely on ethylene oxide to sterilize medical ...

The EPA estimated that the proposed rule would result in total capital investment cost savings of roughly $280 million across commercial sterilization facilities and an annual compliance cost savings ...

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

Many medical devices need to be sterile to be used safely. But sterilizing a pacemaker, catheter, or other device with steam or heat could damage its structural integrity. So medical device ...

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