RE: storage of tissues

From:"Morken, Tim - Labvision"

Jane, from personal past experience, DO NOT let them put the blocks in an non-airconditioned mini-storage!  (no , I didn't do that, a pathologist did!).
 
Tim Morken
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Moose [mailto:jane.moose@newberryhospital.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:58 AM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: storage of tissues

Our facility is having growing pains and we need to move many years worth of cassettes to a new location.  What are minimum standards or guidelines for facilities where tissue is stored?
 e.g  temperature ranges, humidity, insect control  etc.
With newer techniques, I can only assume that the storage conditions will become a more important consideration in the handling of tissue.  We are having difficulty convincing the facilities personnel that are storage areas are important too!.  Thanks 
 
Jane Moose
Newberry County Memorial Hospital
Newberry S.C.
 
803-405--7129
fax-803-405-7474
 

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