Hi Loralee
Try a butcher's supply store. They sell devices they use for vacuum packing
meat. By removing the air from the bag the evaporation of formalin is almost
zero and the specimens will remain intact for many years. The bags are also
more hardy than those sold with basic bag sealers.
Milestone Medical has a really neat system. www.milesonemed.com It is called
the TissueSAFE. You will find it under preanalytical tools. We would love to
get one for our couriers and biospecimen repository. We haven't purchased it
yet.
Loralee McMahon, HTL (ASCP)
Immunohistochemistry Sup
