NANFA-L-- Sterilizing with bleach/boiling

Jase Roberts (nanfa_list-in-jaseroberts.net)
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:06:28 -0700

My faith in bleach as an absolute sterilizing agent was seriously shaken when I read this method for decapsulating brine shrimp eggs/cysts a while back: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FA023 . Sure, these cysts are designed to be pretty tough little things, but 50% bleach and they're still viable?

-Jase
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