📋 Tender Overview
F The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA will host a virtual community meeting for residents of Taunton and Norton Massachusetts to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide or EtO. The community meeting will take place virtually on September 13 at 700 p.m. During the meeting EPA staff will discuss potential risks for residential and commercial properties within one mile of Professional Contract Sterilization Inc. PCS a commercial sterilizer facility located at 40 Miles Standish Boulevard in Taunton.EPA will share and discuss new information on lifetime risk levels for people who live near this facility and will hear from community members and other stakeholders about their concerns.EPA analysis indicates that the ambient air near this facility does not exceed short-term health benchmarks. However EPA modeling indicates that a lifetime of exposure to EtO emissions could lead to long-term health impacts if risk levels are not reduced. EPA is working with facilities like PCS to take appropriate steps to reduce emissions. Later this year EPA expects to propose a new rule which will update the regulation that sets how much EtO can come out of facilities like the one in Taunton. This rulemaking effort is being done to protect public health by addressing EtO emissions at commercial sterilizers.
