While American public-health officials continue to grapple with potential medical device shortages after a major ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization facility closed this year, regulators are asking for help coming up with new methods and technologies to reduce reliance on, and emissions of, the toxic chemical.
On 15 July, the US Food and Drug Administration announced two innovation challenges to help solve its EtO dilemma, which has been a headache for the agency after medical device sterilization facilities using