Sterigenics accused of moving $1.3 billion to avoid ethylene oxide payouts

The attorneys representing 75 people who lived or worked near the company’s now-shuttered Willowbrook, Ill., medtech sterilization plant filed an amended complaint in Cook County, Ill. on Jan. 31. The new filing claims Sterigenics and its parent companies began moving the money around in 2016 when they learned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would reclassify EtO from a “probable” to a “known” human carcinogen.

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