RE: Recycling

From:

Bruce Gapinski

Message

I'm loving my BR still. I've had it 2-3 years. It took me 9 years to talk my Pathologists into getting one! It's paid for itself already. I use it for xylene only. I think the best you can do with alcohol is 95% (5% water), and we don't use that much 95% alcohol. I love it. BR is a great company w/ great support.

Messy? - No more than decanting into a 55 gallon waste drum, that gets burned for us all to breathe.

Where used? - everywhere. Processing, staining. etc.

Processors - 2 VIP 3000

How many slides do we check? - 100% Believe me our Pathologists would let us know in a minute if they didn't like what they saw.

Respectfully,

Bruce (I AM NOT A REP) Gapinski HT(ASCP)

-----Original Message-----
From: Fisher, Toni [mailto:TFisher@childrensmemorial.org]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 1:03 PM
To: 'histonet@pathology.swmed.edu'
Subject: Recycling

Thanks to all for helping with drying times and job rotation. Here are other issues we would like the communities help with. For those who recycle alcohol and xylene: Have you found it to be cost effective? How dirty a job is it? Where do you use the recycled product? How many tissue processors does your lab have?

For QC on H&E slides how many slides do you check? We heard a figure of 40% of the slides.

Thank you all

Toni

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