re-using popsicle sticks?

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Hi everyone, I am making a large batch of ice-cream popsicles, and I'm using plain popsicle sticks. My question is, will it be safe for me to(after disinfecting,) reuse them for my birds to play with?
 
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Extra notes:
I am using chocolate, milk(cream), vanilla flavouring, salt, and sugar(condensed milk)in the recipe.
 
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Thanks for the reply. I didn't want to waste the popsicle sticks.

Can I disinfect with F10?
 

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Great idea to try to repurpose them! Because you are using chocolate, I would be afraid that some had seeped inside the popsicle sticks where you couldn't get to it.
Personally, I would just break the sticks just below where the ice cream was and then wash them in soapy water and let dry.
Hopefully someone else has done it and can say that using the whole stick is perfectly safe.
 
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The chocolate is just on the outside, it's a coating. Thanks for the advice.
 

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The chocolate is just on the outside, it's a coating. Thanks for the advice.
Oh, perfect. It shouldn't be anywhere near the sticks then.
My littles love popsicle sticks:)
 
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Thanks, Sailboat.

I wonder- we don't have Dawn Soap in SA, but we do have Sunlight. I wonder if that's safe. I will try find the ingredients.
 
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Here are the ingredients
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SA likely has several group that help save sea birds when there is an oil spill and that group will use a liquid soap with a very limited number of additional chemicals and as a result will be kind to the birds delicate skin. In North America, that soap is Dawn Original Formula.

My reference to Sunlight is that natural ball of light in the sky during the day.
 
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SA likely has several group that help save sea birds when there is an oil spill and that group will use a liquid soap with a very limited number of additional chemicals and as a result will be kind to the birds delicate skin. In North America, that soap is Dawn Original Formula.
Interesting...
My reference to Sunlight is that natural ball of light in the sky during the day.
Yes, I knew that. But I just wanted to say that dawn soap isn't available in SA, and if the soap available is safe.
 
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I’ve used Sunlight dish soap and I think it would be fine. It’s a good alternative to Dawn.
 

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