This article has been updated with a statement from Sterigenics.
A judge in Illinois has approved the consent agreement between the state and Sterigenics that could enable the company to reopen its Willowbrook medical device sterilization plant.
DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Paul Fullerton gave the nod to the agreement that the state attorney general and Sterigenics reached in July. The llinois Environmental Protection Agency abruptly shut down the company’s ethylene oxide (EO) medtech sterilization plant in February, citing excess emissions of the carcinogenic sterilant gas.
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