A Georgia county agreed to lift restrictions on a medical sterilizer plant that uses ethylene oxide, after White House pressure to help satisfy the growing demand for clean and safe medical equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners signed an emergency order late Wednesday that “temporarily” permits Sterigenics U.S. LLC to restart its currently shuttered sterilization plant “for the sole purpose of sterilizing PPE (personal protective equipment) necessary to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,” referring to the infection caused by the deadly new coronavirus.
Cobb County took the action the same day Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division ...
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