The Environmental Protection Agency is launching new efforts to better inform communities, tribes, and stakeholders about the health risks of ethylene oxide air emissions.
The agency is also releasing new information on where “lifetime risk levels” are highest near emitting facilities, and has plans to roll out ethylene oxide regulations for commercial sterilizers later this year, according to the announcement issued Wednesday.
The agency is currently reviewing the Clean Air Act for other protective measures across industries. Emissions of the chemical, primarily from medical sterilization plants, can be carcinogenic in concentrated doses.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration “shares concerns ...
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