Amy,

We use steam monitor strips from Biocare Medical, cat#613.
They come in little zip lock bags of 25, and we just lay one across the top 
of one of our coplin jars before closing the pressure cooker.
Biocare Medical - (800)799-9499

Tara


>From: Amy Self 
>To: "'Tara Miller'" 
>Subject: RE: RETRIEVAL USING PRESSURE COOKER
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:40:43 -0400
>
>
>	Tara,
>	We do a few immunos in our small lab using the black and decker
>steamer - was wandering where do you get the steamer strips from and how 
>are
>you using these strips?   Thanks
>
>
>							Amy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tara Miller [mailto:taratheht@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:23 AM
>To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
>Subject: Re: RETRIEVAL USING PRESSURE COOKER
>
>
>At first we were marking on sheets (one for each pH) that our pH strips had
>detected the correct pH. However now we save all the strips, both steam
>strips and the pH strips, by just taping them all into a log book. Of 
>course
>
>we first let them dry out and the pH strips fade a little, but it
>demonstrates that we did the necessary testing. Also, we log the date and
>whether the steam strip was used in the pressure cooker or the steamer. 
>And,
>
>if we do more than on run we mark 1st run and 2nd run next to the strips.
>
>Tara Oakes, H.T.
>Central DuPage Hospital
>
>
> >From: "Nava, Josefa" 
> >To: "'HISTONET@PATHOLOGY.SWMED.EDU.'" 
> >Subject: RETRIEVAL USING PRESSURE COOKER
> >Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:55:48 -0500
> >
> >I am curious how  everyone is doing their QC on the  IHC pressure cooker.
> >Do
> >you have a form to log in your temperature and pressure  evrytime  you 
>run
> >your pressure cooker everyday? For those who are using the Biocare 
>pressure
> >cooker what type of  Quality control do
> >you have aside from using the Monitor strips. And do you have an everyday
> >log to record your  reaction on your monitor strips or do you even save
> >those strips for CAP inspection?  I appreciate any feedback you can  give
> >me
> >on this matter.
> >
> >Josie
> >
>
>
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