EPA visit to Puerto Rico: Discussing the risks from ethylene oxide emissionsThe agency has concluded that long-term exposure to ethylene oxide -used by companies that sterilize medical equipment- increases the incidence of cancer
Five months after the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a warning to residents of four municipalities where facilities that emit a pollutant known as ethylene oxide (EtO) operate, the agency’s Region 2 administrator, Lisa García, met with residents of three of the potentially affected communities as part of a visit to Puerto Rico last week.
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