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BD Sterilization Facilities

Covington and Madison, Georgia

BD’s facilities in Georgia safely sterilizes more than 15 million medical devices each year. From urinary catheters, PICC lines, oncology ports, breast biopsy needles, vascular and ureteral stents, feeding tubes, and more, these lifesaving devices are found in nearly every hospital and healthcare facility in Georgia and around the world.

Ethylene oxide gas (EtO) is the only type of sterilization that can be used for these sensitive medical products. Other sterilization methods (e.g. radiation, steam, chloride dioxide, vaporized hydrogen peroxide) will damage the products or are unable to ensure the required level of sterility.

BD Sterilization Facilities​

Covington and Madison, Georgia

BD’s facilities in Georgia safely sterilizes more than 15 million medical devices each year. From urinary catheters, PICC lines, oncology ports, breast biopsy needles, vascular and ureteral stents, feeding tubes, and more, these lifesaving devices are found in nearly every hospital and healthcare facility in Georgia and around the world.

Ethylene oxide gas (EtO) is the only type of sterilization that can be used for these sensitive medical products. Other sterilization methods (e.g. radiation, steam, chloride dioxide, vaporized hydrogen peroxide) will damage the products or are unable to ensure the required level of sterility.

LEARN MORE ABOUT BD IN GEORGIA

BD’s Georgia Facilities: Beyond Compliance

  • BD has programs and procedures in place to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements from EPA, OSHA, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, FDA and all state and local permits.
  • BD’s sterilization facilities in Georgia have used the best available EtO emission control technology in the industry, achieving >99.9% destruction efficiency.

Investing in Safety in Georgia

BD is the industry leader in developing and implementing capture and control technologies to reduce EtO emissions in our sterilization facilities.

In Georgia, BD has already made significant investments to upgrade emissions controls to ensure its facilities are below new EPA risk threshold standards for EtO emissions. Since August 2019, BD has voluntarily invested approximately $40 million at the sites to install new control technology and implement process changes to further reduce emissions.

State-of-the-Art Technology Investments Made in Georgia Include:
  • Installed and commissioned additional “dry bed” emissions control systems to capture residual EtO emissions using chemisorption technology.
  • Installation of Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS) to monitor and report site emissions on real time basis.
  • Developed and implemented additional Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) programs for outdoor components.
  • System-wide upgrades designed to minimize EtO emissions throughout the sterilization process.
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