Does anyone have experience with the sterile use of Caustic Soda (NaOH) at 25% concentration or greater? Is this a self-sterilizing fluid?

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We use caustic soda in a fermentation process for pH control and there is some question to its sterilizing properties.

In case anyone was wondering.

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