Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known for years that emissions of ethylene oxide —a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment and some food products—pose a long-term cancer risk to communities near commercial sterilizing facilities. Like commercial sterilizers, they emit the gas into the air.
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