The EPA is moving farther and farther away from producing science-driven outcomes. Its final rule for regulating ethylene oxide emissions from commercial sterilizers demonstrates how EPA is ignoring ...

Team led by Tufts University researchers discovers process to create “platform chemical” that is used widely for plastics, textiles, and much more Few people have heard of the chemical ethylene oxide, ...

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 ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States. Now, the gas is at the center of a heated regulatory battle after the EPA ...

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new regulations to govern the more than 80 industrial facilities across the nation that use ethylene oxide, a highly potent and toxic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Lakewood business that sterilizes medical equipment with cancer-causing ethylene oxide must slash its air emissions after the Environmental Protection ...