pieces of stopper in vial

[buff999]

i have a few pieces in my vial floating...i think i have read somewhere that you can just pop the stopper and fish it out with a needle? correct? but once you do this, is it now unsterile?

if i have to bake it, can you put one of those 10ml vials in the oven?

[BASK8KACE]

You should do a search a lot of questions like these have been answered several times.

Here are two posts to start you off:
1. rubber breaking off in vial

2. I found a sliver of what looked like black rubber in my dart