Sterigenics
Recent News About Sterigenics
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EPA in-fighting goes public over need for more forums to discuss alleged health risks from sterilization plants, chemical factories
Recommendations for more forums, which have been dominated at times by activists, came from the EPA inspector general amid calls from the FDA to reopen sterilization facilities to boost medical supplies to fight COVID-19
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Sterigenics sues Cobb County, Ga., says concocted illegal reasons to keep sterilization plant closed, despite COVID
Illinois-based Sterigenics says Cobb County buckled to pressure from activists, seeking to keep sterilization plant closed, despite no authority to do so.
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Medical sterilization plants reopen to fight COVID, but feds discussing further steps 'at highest level' to boost medical supplies
Cobb County, Ga., officials posted a message, purportedly from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, blasting county's 'insufficient' decision to only allow limited reopening of embattled sterilization plant and hinting at possible further federal action to boost supplies of PPE and other medical gear needed vs COVID-19.
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FDA: Sterilization plants needed to boost PPE supply vs COVID; activists question, resist call to reopen plants
Anti-EtO sterilization groups in IL, GA, oppose FDA's call to reopen medical sterilization plants closed last year, which FDA says are needed to help fight COVID-19
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FDA: Georgia Sterigenics plant needs to reopen to help fight COVID-19
Federal agency says hospitals are running short on "personal protective equipment" to safeguard doctors and nurses from infection, in part, because states shut down medical device sterilization plants over EtO emissions
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Already under strain from sterilization plant closures, coronavirus outbreak adds 'pressure' on medical device supplies
Medical device makers and the FDA have said for months that efforts to close sterilization plants that produce millions of key medical devices would constrain health care supply. The coronavirus outbreak only increases the strain, the makers say.
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Trade orgs warn EPA of shortages in key health care items, spices, if move too harshly vs use of ethylene oxide
American Spice Trade Association and AdvaMed both warn EPA against tightening the screws too tightly on facilities that use EtO to sterilize medical devices and keep spices free from Salmonella and other pathogens.
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IL Atty. Gen., others, ask EPA to make national EtO regulations mirror those in Illinois
Illinois' Attorney General has asked the EPA to tighten EtO emissions standards, even after the attorney general had argued those emissions standards had no bearing on the ability of the state to shut down a medical device sterilization plant for emitting EtO.
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Texas public health findings question EPA's findings over cancer risk from EtO, as controversy rages in Lake County
Texas state officials say cancer incidence lower than U.S. average in county with EtO emissions 300 times higher than U.S. average
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EtO plaintiffs: Even before 1st lawsuit filed, Sterigenics moved to put $1.3B 'out of reach' of personal injury lawsuits
Sterigenics says the finance accusations are 'inaccurate,' 'misleading' and 'false.'
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'Public nuisance' personal injury suits vs Sterigenics over emissions surge again
The number of lawsuits has again surged against Sterigenics, even as the company seeks to dismiss them by asserting the public nuisance suits are thwarted by federal and state emissions regulation.
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Sterigenics: Personal injury lawsuits should be doomed by EPA, other government regulation of EtO emissions
Sterigenics has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss a host of personal injury lawsuits against it, asserting the law does not allow it to be sued for its emissions of ethylene oxide, because the emissions were regulated by the government
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IL ethylene oxide ban advances, over warnings of 'ripple effect' fueling medical device shortages, 'true health care crisis'
Brushing aside warnings of shortages of properly sterilized health care tools, Illinois lawmakers are moving forward with new legislation to all but force the state’s medical device sterilization plants to close, over concerns emissions from the plants may be linked to an increased risk of cancer in those living nearby.
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Citing unpredictable legislative and regulatory landscape in Illinois, Sterigenics says it will exit Willowbrook operations
Sterigenics has announced plans to exit its ethylene oxide (EO) sterilization operations in Willowbrook, in spite of approval it received from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 20 to install emissions-capture technology at the shuttered plant.
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Illinois EPA OKs Sterigenics construction permit; 'First step in lengthy process' toward reopening, IEPA says
The Illinois EPA has granted a construction permit to allow Sterigenics to install emissions capture technology at its Willowbrook plant.
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DuPage judge OKs Sterigenics consent order; Company can begin regulatory process to reopen Willowbrook plant
A DuPage County judge has signed off on an agreement that would end a court fight over actions taken by the state of Illinois to shut down Sterigenics' Willowbrook medical device sterilization plant over claims the plant emitted an allegedly cancer-causing chemical into the air.
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'Nuisance' lawsuits filed vs Medline, Vantage over EtO; Complaints mirror suits vs Sterigenics
Two more companies - Medline and Vantage - have joined the list of those being sued in Cook County court for emitting ethylene oxide, a chemical compound used extensively in industry, but which a growing host of lawsuits blame for causing cancer among those living near the alleged emissions sites.
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Pritzker, Raoul deal with Sterigenics 'only decision' to make within the law, despite 'vigilante' efforts of local lawmakers
Three Illinois Republican lawmakers have "aided and abetted the 21st Century version of vigilante justice in place of the rule of law" by backing the claims and actions of activists seeking to shut down Sterigenics, when the company did not violate applicable emissions rules, says air quality consultant and chemist Rich Trzupek.
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Can Sterigenics easily swap sterilants? Lawyers say yes; FDA, medical device makers less certain
Lawyers leading a growing number of lawsuits vs Sterigenics say the medical device sterilizer can easily substitute another sterilization method for ethylene oxide. The FDA and medical device makers seem less certain.