Guidance

Ethylene oxide: general information and incident management

Information on ethylene oxide for use in responding to chemical incidents.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 July 2014
• Last updated: 13 March 2025
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  1. 13 March 2025

     The content of the Incident Management document has been updated. The General Information page has undergone a HTML format update – the content within this page has remained unchanged.

  2. 10 January 2022

     Updated general information and incident management.

  3. 16 May 2017

     Added general information.

  4. 8 November 2016

     Updated incident management document.

  5. 22 January 2016

     Updated incident management guidance.

  6. 1 July 2014

     First published.

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Ethylene oxide: incident management

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These documents provide information on the health effects of exposure and material for responding to a chemical incident.

Ethylene oxide is also known as 1,2-epoxyethane, oxirane, or dimethylene oxide.

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