The first of the whistle-blowers came to the Office of Special Counsel in 2009 accusing the hospital's sterilization department of having "routinely failed to properly clean and sterilize" equipment, including scalpels and bone cutters, documents show.
Conditions were put in place "largely to please Germany," said Jennifer McKeown, senior economist at Capital Economics in London, who also thinks the decision to sterilize the bond purchases was due to Weidmann.
On the lending side, China's ability to sterilize the immense reserve purchases it placed in U.S. markets allowed it to maintain an undervalued currency and postpone rebalancing its own economy.
Ethanol is used in toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and fuels, and it is used to sterilize hospital instruments.
In the northern Nigerian state of Kano, Muslim leaders were not allowing children to receive OPV because, they contended, the vaccine contained hormones that would sterilize Muslim girls.
Embalming, the treatment of a dead body so as to sterilize it or to protect it from decay.
Additionally, the plants are susceptible to nematodes and pathogenic soil fungi, and many growers sterilize the soil with chemicals such as methyl bromide prior to planting.
In 1865 the British surgeon Joseph Lister used phenol as an antiseptic to sterilize his operating field.
Those could be anything from "new types of "nonlethal" agents, to viruses that sterilize their hosts, to others that incapacitate whole systems within an organism", The Bulletin has said.
It is made in Turkish homes by boiling milk in an uncovered pan to sterilize it and to evaporate water; after cooling, the milk is inoculated with yogurt from a previous batch, incubated a few hours, then slowly cooled to room temperature before use.
Antiseptics are used in medical practice to prevent or combat bacterial infections of superficial tissues and to sterilize instruments and infected material.
