First Independent Tests Of Toxins Near Smyrna’s Sterigenics Plant Now Out

Results are now out from the first round of independent tests of
air quality near the Sterigenics plant in Smyrna. They came out
during Monday’s meeting of the community’s Air Quality Oversight
Committee, and GPB’s Ross Terrell was there. A 2018 Environmental
Protection Agency report indicated the facility there – and the BD
Bard plant in Covington – had been emitting ethylene oxide for
years, despite the EPA’s declaring it a carcinogen in 2016. The
report also indicated the amount of the gas was high enough to
produce an elevated risk of cancer in those communities.