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You are here: Home / Blog / Ethylene oxide plant reopening won’t halt FDA plans to seek alternatives

Ethylene oxide plant reopening won’t halt FDA plans to seek alternatives

July 18, 2019 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

FDA-logo-newThe FDA will continue its efforts to find alternative medical device sterilization methods to ethylene oxide (EO), even though a major EO plant is slated to reopen.

Yesterday, medtech sterilization company Sterigenics and the state of Illinois announced they had reached a proposed consent agreement to reopen a plant in Willowbrook, Ill., which the state shut down in February, citing excessive emissions of EO, a carcinogenic gas. The plant had sterilized millions of devices annually — 594 types of devices, according to the FDA, including sutures, clamps, knives, stents and needles.

Get the full story on our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Legal News, News Well, Research & Development, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: AdvaMed, FDA, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Nelson Laboratories, sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, viant

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