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Another Sterilization Plant Closes For Upgrades; FDA Monitoring Situation For Device Shortage

The US agency is engaged with an ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilizer in Illinois that has temporarily closed to determine if there are any potential risks to the medical device supply chain. While the plant shut down about a month ago, regulators have only recently been made aware of the decision, which resulted from a law passed last year by the state legislature.

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A Medline Industries Inc. ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization plant in Illinois that sterilizes medical devices has temporarily closed so the facility can make upgrades that conform to new state regulations that went into effect this year.

According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the Medline plant in Waukegan temporarily shuttered on 13 December to make the upgrades, but the agency only got wind of it...

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