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by Beldin 1106 days ago
There are 365×24 = 8760 hours in a year. So after 1 year and 52 days, we've crossed this threshold - at current levels.

So: thoroughly sterilised, if the FDA isn't totally off.

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There's a significant difference between acute and chronic doses, the FDA are for acute dosing and there's not really numbers out there for chronic doses over that long of a timeframe with respect to food safety because it's not used. Also bacteria reproduce much faster than a year so maybe it keeps the numbers down by killing older generations sooner but it's not going to sterilize.
No, that dose needs to happen in a short amount of time to apply.