Venting the MW oven is just a safety issue and has nothing to do with the cleaning of the glassware and the quality of the staining procedure. René J.
On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 1:01 PM, "Abbott, Tanya" <tanyaabb...@catholichealth.net> wrote: We just acquired a brand new laboratory microwave to replace ours from the 1980s,..........so we are optimizing our GMS stain. Currently we would let the glassware sit in Chromic acid for 1 hr to chemically clean the glassware before staining. Now we are using the CAP required polypropylene vented microwave containers. Can we skip the chromic Acid step? Tanya G. Abbott RT (CSMLS) Manager Technologist, Histology/Cytology St. Joseph Medical Center Reading, PA 19603-0316 ph 610-378-2635 fax 610-898-5871 email: tanyaabb...@catholichealth.net This electronic mail and any attached documents are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee, or responsible for delivering this email to an addressee, you have received this email in error and are notified that reading, copying, or disclosing this email is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately reply to the sender and delete the message completely from your computer system. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
