LA County supervisor calls for temporary closure of the Sterigenics medical sterilizing plant in Vernon over ethylene oxide, which also is used at plants in Ontario, Carson and Temecula.
A Los Angeles County supervisor is calling for the temporary shuttering of a medical device sterilizing plant and the investigation of other similar facilities elsewhere in Southern California after the region’s air quality agency detected unsafe levels of a cancer-causing gas in Vernon.in Vernon in March in response to the U.S.
Maywood residents live within 500 feet of the facility and have long suffered from the impacts of lead contamination from the Exide battery recycling plant and metal emissions from a magnesium chemical fire in 2016. Exide, which spread contaminants up to 1.7 miles away over the course of decades, abandoned the property“SCAQMD should consider the health burden of these cumulative impacts in its assessment and enforcement strategies,” Hahn wrote in her letter.
by the EPA, five are in California — all in the south — including Parter Medical Products in Carson and Steris Inc. in Temecula. The fifth, Steris Isomedix Services Inc., is in San Diego., the facilities had to begin tracking their emissions in January 2022 and will have to submit the data in 2023.Still under investigation
“This is an ongoing investigation and the South Coast AQMD continues to take air samples and to evaluate all equipment to ensure that the facilities are following permit conditions and using proper emissions control equipment,” he wrote.
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