Meeting scheduled to discuss Viant Medical and air quality tests

Grand Valley will hold a meeting for faculty, staff and students to share any information regarding Viant Medical, Inc. and the indoor air quality tests conducted in select buildings on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus.

The meeting will take place March 29 at 3 p.m. in the L William Seidman Center.

The indoor tests were conducted after the MDEQ widened its study area of emissions of ethylene oxide from Viant Medical, Inc. 

Grand Valley hired an independent company, Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber, Inc., to test the indoor air quality in the L. William Seidman Center, The Bicycle Factory, the DeVos Center, and Winter Hall, which are all located near the Viant facility. Measured results were low and considered to be in the safe range and Grand Valley scheduled additional testing to verify the initial results.

Panelists at the March 29 meeting will include three professors who are part of the team reviewing the results from the university's independent testing: Dave Huizen, George McBane and Rick Rediske.