sterilizer

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Last year, the EPA imposed stricter limits on the chemical, which is used as a sterilizer.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2025

Ethylene oxide has been used as a sterilizer since 1930s, and the EPA has been under pressure to better regulate it since at least the 1980s.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

“If a diesel truck goes by, you can smell it. With a sterilizer, you see nothing, you smell nothing,” said Jane Williams, executive director of California Communities Against Toxics.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

I bought a baby bottle sterilizer to use after I rinse them out with tap water.

From Slate • May 10, 2021

While the nurse was expertly tying a strip of gauze around her arm and the doctor was putting his instrument in the sterilizer and taking out a fresh needle, Francie spoke up.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith