Question

Cotton bandage and box should be clean and sterilized

Answer 1

Answer:

recommend you put the cotton balls in an autoclave paper bag. use the dry (solid) autoclave cycle.  

you can also autoclave some forceps in a metal box (as would for animal surgery). 

After the autoclave put everything in a hot desiccation chamber (60C) for at least 3 h.

The tips of the forceps will be clean and sterile. you can use those to take out the cotton balls in a biosafety cabinet. 

Open the autoclave paper bag, hold its opening horizontally. Aseptically clip out a ball with the forceps' ends. This should not be too difficult to achieve

The autoclave temperature is merely 121C, for 20 min at high