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Are band aids really guaranteed sterile?

I have wondered for a long time how band aids can be guaranteed sterile since the guarantee only applies to unopened band aids. To test or use the band aid it would have to be opened and then there is no guarantee. This is the equivalent of saying your new car has a lifetime 100% guarantee covering any problem unless it is driven. Is there really any guarantee and if you developed an infection could you sue?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    i think the idea is to re-assure consumers that using the product wont introduce diseases aquired from the manufacturing process.

    if you developed an infection that you could PROVE was caused by the application of the bandaid then you could sue, otherwise no

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Sterile Band-aid

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    5 years ago

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    Rubber bands. They can hold things together, you can flick them at people, and they double as little stretchy ropes when you cut them. All Band-Aids do is stick. That's boring. Rubber bands make for hours and hours of fun and usefullness. Rubber bands ftw! MQ: Of course not! I can't imagine life without David Bowie, Rob Halford, Joan Jett, Freddy Mercury, and of course Elton John.

  • 1 decade ago

    It DOES contain a disinfectant, so even if it does get bacteria it dies. You are supposed to coat the bandaid with neosporin or bacitracin anyway, which will kill whatever gets on their

    Source(s): Common Sense
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i think that they are pretty tight on the sterile thing with band aids.

    it's not really a thing to fck with.

    and, **** suing it's gay.

  • Peggy
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Of course they are not once opened

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    6 years ago

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