Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Story updated Initial testing of the air near a medical supply sterilizing facility in Smyrna found little to no ethylene oxide in the large majority of samples taken earlier this month. The September tests occurred days after Sterigenics…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Updated Friday A medical sterilization facility in metro Atlanta is shutting down operations until October as it undergoes construction to reduce emissions of a toxic gas. Sterigenics said Friday that a September shutdown will expedite the…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. The state’s Environmental Protection Division launched an immediate investigation Tuesday of a previously undisclosed leak of toxic gas at a Smyrna medical sterilizing facility. The amount of the ethylene oxide leaked last month was less than…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. At a community meeting in suburban Cobb County on Monday night, elected officials and environmental regulators faced hundreds of residents concerned about toxic pollution. They promised that — at least from now on — they’ll be…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Why didn’t you tell us? It was the first question from the public to state and federal environmental regulators addressing hundreds of Cobb and Fulton County residents Monday night about the dangers of ethylene oxide. It’s…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Editor’s note: This story was updated Aug. 16 with additional details about the state’s plan to conduct air tests for ethylene oxide. Metro Atlanta communities are moving forward with plans to test air around two sterilizing…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. State regulators Friday announced swift approval of plans by a medical device sterilizing company to implement pollution-reduction changes at its Smyrna facility. Sterigenics said earlier this week that it had just submitted an application for a…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. More than 150 Covington-area residents turned out for a community meeting Thursday to discuss toxic pollution coming from a local medical device sterilizing plant. Speakers and audience members called for independent testing of a sterilizing gas,…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Gov. Brian Kemp’s office said Thursday that it’s investigating toxic pollution involving two medical device sterilization plants in metro Atlanta. An EPA report last year flagged two census tracts in the Smyrna area and one in…
Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. Story updated The city of Smyrna has pledged to do independent air testing for a cancer-causing chemical released by a medical sterilizing plant. “We want to be as proactive as we can,” said Tim Gould of the…