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In 2002, Jinot joined an EPA team that was evaluating new research to determine whether ethylene oxide, one of the world's most widely used chemicals, caused cancer. Eldridge, who helped found the Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Association, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of sterilizer companies, didn't name any specific studies, but said in the letter that the cancer risk posed by the chemical was "thousands of times less than portrayed in EPA's risk estimates." On several occasions, the EPA has waived requirements that would have reduced ethylene oxide pollution from sterilizer plants even as it strengthened regulations for other types of facilities that emit the chemical. [Extracted from the article] |
