Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006. In 2016, it concluded that the gas is 60 times more toxic than its previous estimate. Like commercial sterilizers, they emit the gas into the air.
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