The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation has published an updated international standard designed to help manufacturers of certain medical devices ensure their products are in ...

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The purpose of verifying pure steam quality is to ensure that the steam used for sterilization meets three basic conditions: 1. It can efficiently transfer thermal energy (through latent heat). 2. It ...

Medical devices are seen at Ochsner Medical Center in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson, La., on Aug.11, 2021. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Environmental Protection Agency on ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a limit on the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of ...

A Grist investigation that modeled self-reported ethylene oxide emissions from Cardinal Health’s El Paso warehouses found ...

Ethylene oxide emissions cause cancer. The toxic chemical is often used to sterilize medical supplies, and these emissions are present even in storage facilities, not just the places that clean them.

The global medical grade polypropylene market is entering a decade of robust growth, expected to rise from USD 5.2 billion in ...

ATLANTA — The first trial in hundreds of Georgia lawsuits alleging people were injured by exposure to a chemical used to sterilize medical products is due to start Monday in Gwinnett County. Retired ...