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<p class="MsoNormal">Forgive me if this is off topic, but I hope you health care professionals might help me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry for any cross posts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Thomas Hodges CHMM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Hazardous Materials Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Environmental Health & Safety<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">971 Camp Auburn Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Auburn University AL 36849<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">(334) 703-7511<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">hodgetf@auburn.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro Bold","serif"">And remember: if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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