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Contract manufacturers fuel medtech expansion in Costa Rica

June 18, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Medical device manufacturing is flourishing in the Central American country, spurred by a host of incentives. This year is seeing a wave of expansions by medtech contract manufacturers in Costa Rica. Medtech OEMs have made the Central American company a manufacturing hub since the 1990s. Major companies operating there include Abbott, Bayer, Boston Scientific, Cardinal […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured Tagged With: Biomerics, CINDE, Costa Rica, Freudenberg Medical, Resonetics, SMC, sterigenics, Steris Corp., viant

Medline, Sterigenics failed to report EtO emissions to EPA, report says

May 18, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Two companies that use ethylene oxide (EtO) to sterilize medical devices failed to report emissions of the toxic gas to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. Medline Industries and Sterigenics, both headquartered in Illinois, have also operated medtech sterilization operations in the state. Medline continues to do so, and Sterigenics decided in September 2019 not to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Regulatory/Compliance, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: EPA, ethylene oxide, medline industries, sterigenics

New Mexico AG sues Sterigenics over ethylene oxide emissions

January 6, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

The attorney general of New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Sterigenics and associated companies claiming a company medtech sterilization plant in Santa Teresa, N.M. has harmed air quality and “materially contributed” to nearby residents’ health risks. In the claim filed Dec. 22, 2020, attorney general Hector Balderas alleges that Sterigenics has caused “substantial unreported, uncontrolled releases” […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: ethylene oxide, Sotera Health, sterigenics

Federal rule on ethylene oxide now delayed until 2021

September 29, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

The final federal rule limiting ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions from commercial medtech sterilization plants is now set to come out in 2021, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the EPA had expected to issue the rule in May 2020. The agency considers ethylene oxide a carcinogen, and EtO emissions have attracted national […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Regulatory/Compliance, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: AdvaMed, becton dickinson, ethylene oxide, FDA, sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

6 Georgia residents suing Sterigenics, BD over ethylene oxide exposure

September 9, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

The first six of what attorneys said could be more than 100 lawsuits were filed recently in Georgia against Sterigenics and Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) by people who have lived, worked or attended school near those companies’ medical device sterilization plants. The plants use ethylene oxide (EtO) to sterilize millions of devices per year and reportedly have emitted  thousands pounds of the […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Legal News, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: becton dickinson, sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

600 new ethylene oxide lawsuits filed against Sterigenics in Illinois

August 24, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

More than 600 lawsuits were filed last week against Sterigenics, claiming that emissions from the company’s now-shuttered Willowbrook, Ill., ethylene oxide (EtO) plant caused health problems in people who lived or worked nearby. The filings bring the total of personal-injury lawsuits against the Oak Park, Ill.-based company to more than 700, according to one of more […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Legal News, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: ethylene oxide, Sotera Health, sterigenics

Sterigenics sues Ga. county officials over EtO-related property tax devaluations

August 20, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Sterigenics has filed a lawsuit against the members of a Georgia county tax board, claiming that the board’s decision to lower valuations on properties near the company’s medical device sterilization plant has harmed its reputation. The federal lawsuit, filed in Atlanta, also claims that the members of the Cobb County Board of Tax Assessors unfairly and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Legal News, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: Environmental Protection Agency, ethylene oxide, sterigenics

Dems seek to force EPA action on ethylene oxide monitoring

July 30, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Democrats in both houses of Congress have introduced legislation that would force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to better monitor emissions of ethylene oxide (EtO) from plants that manufacture the toxic gas or use it to sterilize medical devices. The Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020, sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester […]

Filed Under: Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Regulatory/Compliance, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: B. Braun, Becton Dickonson, coronavirus, COVID-19, Croda, Edwards Lifesciences, ethylene oxide, Medline Industries Inc., sterigenics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, viant

Ga. warehouse workers sue Sterigenics, ConMed over EtO exposure

May 22, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Fifty-three people who worked in an Atlanta-area warehouse that stored medical devices sterilized by ethylene oxide (EtO) filed suit this week against Sterigenics and its parent company over exposure to the gas. The plaintiffs or their families claim that long-term EtO exposure to the sterilized devices, which they unloaded, handled, warehoused and distributed, caused multiple deaths, cancer, […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Sterilization / Calibration Tagged With: ConMed Corp., Sotera Health, sterigenics

Pressure mounts to reopen Sterigenics Ga. plant to address coronavirus pandemic

March 25, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Under pressure from the FDA, officials in Cobb County, Ga., may allow Sterigenics to reopen a medical device sterilization plant sooner than expected to address the coronavirus pandemic. Oak Park, Ill.-based Sterigenics temporarily shut the Atlanta plant on August 26 to voluntarily upgrade emission controls for ethylene oxide (EtO), the carcinogenic gas it used to […]

Filed Under: Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: coronavirus, ethylene oxide, sterigenics

Sterigenics asks to reopen Georgia EtO plant to fight coronavirus

March 19, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Sterigenics has asked Cobb County, Ga. officials for permission to reopen its medical device sterilization plant to aid in the fight against the coronavirus. Oak Park, Ill.-based Sterigenics temporarily shut the Atlanta plant on August 26 to voluntarily upgrade emission controls for ethylene oxide (EtO), the carcinogenic gas it used to sterilize medical devices. In September, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, News Well Tagged With: coronavirus, ethylene oxide, sterigenics

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