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Opinion: OSHA’s outdated ethylene oxide rules are putting Bay Area workers at risk

EVERY DAY IN THE BAY AREA and across California, workers step into sterilization facilities, unaware they may be inhaling something that could one day make them gravely ill. The culprit is ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize nearly half of all medical equipment in the United States. Although the chemical plays […]

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