在Cotton和Roarh等用环氧乙烷对侵蚀家具和食物的昆虫作为有效熏蒸以来,由于环氧乙烷的渗透和扩散力强,杀虫和灭菌的效果显著,因而已广泛用作许多物品的常温消毒剂。如对调味料、塑料容器、卫生材料、化妆品原料以及动物饲料和食品等方面。我国近年来在医用器材、食糖、蛋类和粮食等方面也在使用环氧乙烷作为杀虫剂和杀菌剂,并得到较为满意的效果。 Since Cotton and Roarh et al., Which use ethylene oxide to erode furniture and food insects as effective fumigants, have been widely used as many articles because of their strong penetrating and dispersing power and their insecticidal and sterilization effects are remarkable The room temperature disinfectant. Such as condiments, plastic containers, sanitary materials, cosmetics raw materials and animal feed and food and so on. In recent years, China also uses ethylene oxide as an insecticide and bactericide in medical equipment, sugar, eggs and grain, and obtains satisfactory results.