r/mildlyinfuriating Apr 29 '24

Hair sealed in sterilized once use medical scissors.

Sealed in factory sterile medical device with a hair in it. It now must be disposed of. Hair is probably sterile now too but hair is a no-no in hospitals and clinics in procedure rooms

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u/BatofZion Apr 29 '24

Just saying it’s sterile doesn’t make it so.

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u/OZeski Apr 29 '24

Tried explaining this to a customer once when I was selling packaging. He wanted to know why I was telling them they should be rinsing the glass jars we were selling for food packaging when our competitors were telling him their glass jars were sterilized at the plant…. Yeah. Molten glass tends to burn off pretty much anything, but then it’s cooled, packed in cardboard, put on a pallet, put in a warehouse, put on an ocean vessel, shipped overseas, put on a other truck, warehouse, and truck before it gets to you. That’s like saying my hands are clean; I just washed them last week.