[Pharmwaste] Ethylene Oxide Substitute?

[Stevan Gressitt]

well, apples make it....going under a very large rock now.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Thomas Hodges <hodgetf at auburn.edu> wrote:

>  Forgive me if this is off topic, but I hope you health care
> professionals might help me.****
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> Does anyone have data on acceptable substitutes for EtO as a sterilant in
> hospital or veterinary environments? Our veterinary school currently uses
> EtO but is growing increasingly concerned about EtO as a carcinogen, as
> well as the extensive engineering controls required to keep clinicians
> safe. It has a TWA of 1.0 ppm, with an excursion level of 5.0 ppm. Is there
> something else out there that will sterilize as well as EtO, without the
> toxicity it exhibits? Barring substitutions, does anyone have experience
> with any engineering controls that would lower the action level to below
> 0.5 ppm, thereby exempting some of the OSHA requirements when using EtO?**
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> Sorry for any cross posts.****
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> Thomas Hodges CHMM****
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Stevan Gressitt, M.D., D.F.A.P.A.
Faculty Associate, University of Maine Center on Aging
Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research
Athens, Greece
Founding Director, International Institute for Pharmaceutical Safety
University of New England, College of Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine
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