A Pennsylvania man has filed a lawsuit against B. Braun Medical over emissions of the sterilant gas ethylene oxide (EtO).
The man, Adam Akarsoy, lives and works near a B. Braun sterilization plant in Hanover, Pa., and filed the federal lawsuit seeking certification as a class action. Akarsoy claims that B. Braun “has consistently emitted, on average, nearly 5,000 pounds of carcinogenic ethylene oxide from its (Hanover) facility over the last decade. In 2009 alone, B. Braun emitted 8,960 pounds of EtO.”
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