Report: 32 new lawsuits filed against Sterigenics in Illinois over ethylene oxide emissions

This article has been updated with comments from one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys.

More than 40 lawsuits have been filed against Sterigenics by people who claim that emissions from the company’s Willowbrook, Ill. medical device sterilization plant have adversely affected their or their relatives’ health, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs filed 32 new suits in Cook County, Ill., this week seeking damages for illnesses that they claim stem from exposure to ethylene oxide (EO), a carcinogenic gas that Sterigenics used to sterilize millions of devices annually.

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