Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News.
A Smyrna medical sterilization plant at the center of a controversy over toxic pollution will remain closed until the company meets new safety standards, Cobb County officials say.
The Sterigenics facility, which sterilizes medical supplies with ethylene oxide, had been temporarily shut down while doing construction to reduce its emissions of the cancer-causing gas. Those changes were initially expected to take roughly a month.
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