To fight cancer, EPA wants sterilizer companies to emit less

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The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of medical devices each year.

The tightened safeguards are driven by a better understanding by EPA that ethylene oxide’s threat can be severe. The chemical is classified as a pesticide. A worker in a medical sterilizing plant, over the course of a career, could see his or her risk shoot up by as much as one extra case of cancer for every ten people exposed. The EPA’s generally acceptable increase in lifetime cancer risk is 1 in 10,000.

The EPA said many facilities have already sharply reduced emissions, but those that haven’t will now have to meet stricter requirements. “It could take many months for abatement equipment to arrive. Supply chains and manufacturing are still recovering from the pandemic,” Whitaker said in a statement.

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