This article was jointly reported by Brenda Goodman of WebMD and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News.
Recent air testing in neighborhoods around a medical equipment sterilization facility in suburban Atlanta has detected significantly more cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas than when the plant was not operating last fall.
The new, higher levels have come even though Sterigenics, the company that runs the south Cobb County plant, has installed new pollution control equipment — including a negative pressure system aimed at capturing stray ethylene oxide before it leaks into the outdoor air.
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