Re: [Histonet] Formaldehyde sensors and badges

2015-08-20 Thread Kim Donadio via Histonet
You can purchase trace gas badges from Mercedes medical. And a few other places. You just wear them or place them for a short term or long term exposure limit then package them back up and send them in. They send you the results. These badges meet CLIA/CAP guidelines. Hope this helps Kim _

Re: [Histonet] Formaldehyde sensors and badges

2015-08-20 Thread Michael Ann Jones via Histonet
Both Leica and Statlab (probably many labs) sell fume monitor badges for both xylene and formaldehyde. Techs wear badges for work shift and then they are sent to company for analysis reports. Monitoring must be done with job/equipment change, new employees, new processĀ¹, etc. Once levels are within

[Histonet] Formaldehyde sensors and badges

2015-08-20 Thread Wheelock, Timothy R. via Histonet
Hi Everyone: We are looking into formaldehyde sensors or badges to monitor our exposure to formaldehyde in our dissection room and our fixed tissue storage room. Does anyone have experience with this that they could share? Thank you so much. Tim Wheelock Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center McLe