Nearly two dozen people who have lived in the Augusta, Ga. area are suing Cardinal Health subsidiary Kendall Patient Recovery U.S. over ethylene oxide emissions from a medical device sterilization plant in the city.
The people suing KPR U.S. in U.S. District Court in Southern Georgia lived and worked within miles of the Augusta facility over the decades and claim that they never had any notice that they were inhaling air that was potentially endangering their health. Industrial users of EtO, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers, knew of EtO’s potential dangers by the early 1980s. (The EPA classified ethylene oxide as a human carcinogen in December 2016.)
The people suing KPR U.S. suffered a host of cancers.
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