Sterilising up to 12 months, is this the current advice?

[rogersmellyonthetelly]

Was at baby show a couple of weeks back, talked to the lovely woman on the Miltons stand as I was stocking up on tablets and a new sterilising tub, she said sterilising until 12 months is now recommended!
I can't get my head round how there is any merit in sterilising dummies when a baby is crawling round on the floor, putting stuff in their mouth etc. bottles surely would be clean enough after a good wash and scrub and left to air dry? Last 2 dc I stopped sterilising a month or so after they started crawling, seemed a bit pointless really!

only for bottles, because the milk is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria in the way other objects like dummies etc are not.
But you can use the dishwasher, does the same job.

I bet that's the advice from Milton! "Please buy another 6 months of supplies from us"

Surely though if you ate prepping bottles correctly then the bacteria won't have chance to breed?