How to Use ethylene oxide in a Sentence

ethylene oxide

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  • Nearly all of the risk is from exposure to ethylene oxide, which has been on the federal list of carcinogens since 1985.
    — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • All of the items are sterilized using ethylene oxide gas.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 15 June 2021
  • These controls can measure ethylene oxide in indoor air down to 10 parts per billion.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, Madigan urged the Legislature to pass legislation to ban or greatly restrict the use of ethylene oxide in Illinois.
    — Charles Selle, Lake County News-Sun, 10 June 2019
  • Updates on the village’s actions relative to ethylene oxide can be found on its website.
    — Erin Yarnall, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The company has faced scrutiny in recent years over its emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide from its plant in Waukegan.
    — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2021
  • Testing for ethylene oxide around Waukegan and Gurnee, as well as throughout Lake County, will be done in real time and more accurately this spring through the use of new equipment and a federal grant.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • For example, ethylene oxide has been linked to lymphoma.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Sterigenics has known of ethylene oxide’s carcinogenic effects since at least 1984, one of the complaints alleges.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Tuesday’s proposal is based on the latest EPA science on ethylene oxide.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The complex would discharge carcinogens like benzene, formaldehyde, and ethylene oxide into the air.
    — Popular Science, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Communities exposed to ethylene oxide gas had lobbied the EPA to put tighter controls on plants that use ethylene oxide gas.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Lawyers for the companies argued that Salvi offered no proof that Kamuda’s breast cancer was caused by exposure to ethylene oxide.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Overall, styrene and ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas, are the top two chemicals released into the air and water in Salinas, officials say.
    — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The proposal would slash ethylene oxide emissions nationwide by about two-thirds and chloroprene by three-quarters from 2020 levels, according to the agency.
    — Michael Phillis, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The agency said ethylene oxide emissions could pose an elevated risk of cancer and other ailments.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Despite parents’ complaints, School board members compared the testing compound, called ethylene oxide, to sterilizing a fork with bleach but not being poisoned from using the fork to eat.
    — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • If earlier researchers had had their way in 1987, da Vinci’s drawing would have been soaked in ethylene oxide, an intervention that could have caused irreparable damage.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2016
  • These chemicals, such as methyl bromide, ethylene oxide, and phosphine, can cause myriad symptoms, ranging from nausea and skin irritation to seizures and even death.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Wired, 16 July 2022
  • As the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Hawthorne reports, even pro-business state lawmakers had pushed for a shutdown of the facility, a major source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide pollution.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Salinas also is home to Steri-Tech, the company that uses ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment.
    — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 29 Jan. 2023
  • While short-term or infrequent exposure to ethylene oxide does not appear to pose a health risk, the EPA said long-term or lifetime exposure to the chemical could lead to a variety of health impacts, including lymphoma and breast cancer.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Davis has even exposed it to ethylene oxide, a poisonous gas used to sterilize laboratory equipment, with no discernible effects.
    — Steve Nadis, Science | AAAS, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Others, like the cloud of toxic ethylene oxide covering a large swath of Laredo, Texas, were not previously known — even to residents breathing the contaminated air.
    — Lylla Younes, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In suburban Chicago, one of its facilities was shut down due to elevated levels of ethylene oxide.
    — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The company also argued the lawsuit doesn’t prove ethylene oxide is responsible for the illnesses of residents and former workers.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The Grand Rapids facility later stopped using ethylene oxide.
    — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2021
  • But nationwide, more than 100 sterilizing plants still use ethylene oxide.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The company uses ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas, to sterilize medical equipment and other goods.
    — Meris Lutz, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • If sterilized, face masks or surgical masks would likely be sterilized using ethylene oxide.
    — Abby Patkin, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020

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