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Baby & Kids · Bottle Sterilizers

Is steam or UV better for baby bottles?

Reviewer consensus

Across the reviewers we read, steam dominates. Science-focused community threads flag that UV sterilizers require sustained exposure (often many minutes) and only work on surfaces directly hit by the light, while steam at boiling temperature reliably kills 99.9% of bacteria. UV is best treated as a supplement, not a primary sterilizer.

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