We use nitrile to coverslip at our lab. Several of us including myself have latex allergy as well as the latex breaks down quickly. Most labs require you to use gloves handling any chemical substance. I have one tech who has years of experience that will suffer greatly at 1 drop of xylene or xylene substitute. With one drop the skin will be eaten away for quite a long time. So nitrile all the way!
I don't know about xylene causing skin cancer but heard an old wives tale once that a HT had gotten liver cancer from exposure to xylene. Who knows if it is true? Lisa White, HT(ASCP) Supervisory HT James H. Quillen VAMC PO Box 4000 Corner of Veterans Way and Lamont PLMS 113 Mountain Home, TN 37684 423-979-3567 423-979-3401 fax _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
