This story was produced in partnership with Atlanta News Firs t. Thousands of warehouse workers across the U.S. are likely regularly exposed to the cancer-linked chemical ethylene oxide. More than ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a set of new restrictions on facilities that use the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide, a colorless, odorless gas that is used to ...

Sterilizing medical equipment is essential for modern healthcare, but the process generates a substantial public health risk. The key culprit is the chemical ethylene oxide, which is both a highly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many medical devices need to be sterile to be used safely. But sterilizing a pacemaker, catheter, or other device with steam or ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has roundly rejected a controversial, chemical industry-backed analysis of the health hazards of ethylene oxide. In a Dec. 21 notice, the EPA says it is standing ...

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 ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to reject a chemical industry–backed analysis of the health hazards of ethylene oxide. That analysis, by the Texas Commission on Environmental ...

The toxic gas ethylene oxide, at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, was detected across parts of Louisiana with a cutting-edge mobile air-testing lab. The concentrations ...

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.