I have a pair of scissors that’s been in a mostly unopened cabinet for 5+ years. I wanted to cut open a bag of breastmilk with clean scissors but water and soap aren’t readily accessible at the moment.
The cabinet is in a former classroom so presumably the scissors were used by kids. My husband says using the scissors wouldn’t be sanitary. I believe him, but honestly I don’t understand why with time and no food the bacteria wouldn’t just die.
EDIT: I should have used the term sanitary not sterile. My baby is old enough that we don’t sanitize pump and bottle parts daily, just wash and dry after uses.
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Bacteria can dry up and enter a state called “spores”. They can then remain viable indefinitely, waiting for water and food to appear – like milk. Bacterial spores over 10,000 years old have been revived successfully, and in principle nothing stops them from being revived even after millions of years.
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