Scorpion Hunting / Bottled Water Sterility Maintenance

fj12ryder wrote:
So it pretty much boils(Har) down to semantics. :)

Perhaps from an advertising standpoint. It's a matter of effectiveness. Sterile has to be darned effective; that every microbe is destroyed within a given area/container. Anything less is more or less "good enough" for food service, or regular hygiene needs.