Testing for ethylene oxide around Waukegan and Gurnee, as well as throughout Lake County, will be done in real time and more accurately this spring through the use of new equipment and a federal grant ...

Levels of a cancer-causing gas within a five-mile radius of a Fulton County sterilization plant are higher than federal regulators consider acceptable, according to test results delivered to the ...

Ethylene Oxide (EtO, EO), a sterilant gas and a key ingredient in chemical feedstock, is being subjected to a major regulatory oversight revision to ensure industrial facilities limit fugitive ...

A pilot air monitoring study in Laredo found varying levels of ethylene oxide, prompting officials to call for expanded ...

ATLANTA — Initial tests by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division show ethylene oxide levels at one Atlanta-area monitoring station exceeding the base level for the “concentration at or below ...

Medline Industries in Waukegan will begin testing equipment designed to meet stricter state standards to capture ethylene oxide, a potential cancer-causing gas. The testing regime is required before ...

Fulton County commissioners will spend $69,300 to test the air for a carcinogenic gas near a south Fulton industrial facility. Ethylene oxide, a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment and some ...

Ethylene oxide gas is used to sterilize around half of the medical equipment that is used across the United States. The equipment is then aerated so that any residual ethylene oxide can be released ...