What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic?

Ethylene oxide is currently the only way to sterilize medical devices that can’t be exposed to steam. It’s used to sanitize 20 billion devices in the U.S. per year, such as pacemakers ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is imposing new restrictions on the emissions of ethylene oxide, a colorless gas that is widely used to sterilize medical devices and is also a carcinogen.

Ethylene oxide is a chemical often used in factory settings to make adhesives, antifreeze, detergents and textiles, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Ethylene oxide is a chemical used in the manufacture of antifreeze, detergents, plastics and textiles, and as a sterilizing agent for food and medical equipment.

And 12 were found to have ethylene oxide concentrations that posed a greater cancer risk than EPA standards allow — in some cases by a significant amount. This EPA minimum acceptable level is an ...

Warehouses used to store medical devices across the country are leaking a toxic chemical, ethylene oxide.And the problem has gone mostly unmonitored and unregulated.

Ethylene oxide emissions cause cancer. The toxic chemical is often used to sterilize medical supplies, and these emissions are present even in storage facilities, not just the places that clean them.

Lakewood's Terumo BCT, which sterilizes medical equipment with cancer-causing ethylene oxide, must slash its air emissions after the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday told all companies ...

Ethylene oxide is primarily produced in Texas and Louisiana with sites in Texas accounting for nearly half of all emitted ethylene oxide in the United States. Because ethylene oxide is emitted in ...