Colorado health officials are planning to take additional air samples near a Lakewood facility that was identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month as a place where gas emissions could potentially raise the risk for cancer. The tests will be conducted “in the coming weeks” to determine what effect Terumo BCT’s steps to curb gas emissions at the plant have had on air quality in nearby neighborhoods, said Jan Stapleman, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, in an email Friday afternoon. So far, preliminary assessments “suggest emissions have been significantly reduced” at the facility after the medical-device firm installed additional ethylene oxide controls, she said. “Although the company’s ethylene oxide emissions were controlled at approximately 30 percent of our EPA permit limit, we installed additional controls that have reduced these emissions even further,” Tom Gulland, director of Terumo BCT’s factory operations, said in a statement Friday. The tests by the department come a month after the EPA said the facility was one of 26 in the nation where gas emissions pose an elevated potential risk for cancer.
Preliminary Tests Show Emissions “significantly Reduced” At Lakewood Plant Flagged For Elevated Potential Cancer Risk
Jessica Seaman, Denver Post: Business
Fri, 09/21/2018 - 4:57pm
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