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Hi,
We have a two alternatives to biopsy bags. I work with mouse tissues, but I bet
you could probably adapt them to human biopsy applications.
The first is the trifold paper towels (you know, the off white rough paper
towels you pull from a dispenser in the ladies room). The nice thing is that
New (or unparaffined, to coin a term) shoes are the major threat here,
imho. When one has paraffin on the bottom of one's shoes and steps on more
paraffin, it is kind of sticky. But if you wear new shoes, or shoes that
have never been in the histo lab, look out! Hence Gayle's experience with
the
I want these in doorways of my house. We used tacky mats at entrance of
designated room for prion tissue work i.e. paraffin microtomy and
cryomicrotomy, etc. Fabulous way to keep the floors clean.
We also had industrial rugs i.e. the kind seen at entrances to large
buildings in lab where r
When you open nylon bags they sometime "pop" the biopsy out and you can lose
it. Tiny tissue gets stuck in the the seams of the bags. Blue sponges made
artifact indents in tissue. We use round Obex papers and have never lost a
biopsy. They are wonderful! You can fold them like filter paper ,us
