VIP fluid rotation
I own a VIP 200 as well. My lab is a Good
Laboratory Practice (GLP) lab and our Standard Operating Procedures
(SOP's) state that the fluids are rotated at approximately every 250
cassettes. That does not mean however, that we just put tissues on until
we reach the 250 cassettes. The fluids are checked each time we run the
processor and if needed fluids are changed. All of our tissues
are received fixed so the first station on the VIP is 70% ethanol. When we
reach the approx 250 cassettes the 70, 80% are dumped and replaced with
new. The first 95% is also dumped and remainder 95% are rotated forward
including the absolute ethanol and new added to the last.
Cathy
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