Oh EW.

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"It is worth noting that although tampons (and increasingly sanitary napkins) may come individually wrapped, they are not sterilized; they are merely bleached white."

Is that true? It came from Wikipedia on an entry about menstrual cups, so it's possibly made by someone advertising for menstrual cups but...dude. Individually wrapped and unsterilized? o.0 my inner bio-geek is screaming for the hills. ::shudders and flails::

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I though that they aren't medically sterile, but are otherwise as near to sterile as a non-medical product can be? Granted you insert them, but as far as I know, in the UK at least there are certain high conditions they must be produced under. I have an article somewhere about it but meh, tired now.

In the words of Douglas Adams: don't panic! :)

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there's more information in the comments below. I'm not particularly panicking because I use a divacup, but it's just a gross mental image because I've worked with petri dishes before and I get bad cramps. (tho ironically I'm pretty laissez faire about stray bio-matter otherwise)