Ethylene oxide is a widely used chemical made in the U.S. by some of the industry’s global giants, including Dow Chemical, Huntsman, Shell and Union Carbide. Its main use is in the refining of other ...
There are a few fundamental chemicals that are the building blocks to most thing that we use and one of them is ethylene oxide or EtO. EtO is used to make plastics, glycols, detergents, solvents, ...
When Julie Cannell was born in the 1980s, the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook churned up to 169,000 pounds of cancer-causing ethylene oxide into the air every year. Cannell grew up about a mile from ...
Scientists have discovered a potentially greener way to produce a crucial industrial chemical used to make many everyday products, from plastics and textiles to antifreeze and disinfectants, according ...
For many complex medical devices such as endoscopes, sterilizing with ethylene oxide is the only method that does the job without damaging the device during the process. Approximately 50% of all ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has roundly rejected a controversial, chemical industry-backed analysis of the health hazards of ethylene oxide. In a Dec. 21 notice, the EPA says it is standing ...