Hi-

How about DAB alternatives? Is New Fuschin stable enough to keep for
awhile, say a year or two? I don't know of any others that even have a
chance, but would love to try something less controversial, but still
stable.

Back to DAB, if you add copper or something to intensify or alter the
color of the end-product before rinsing away the DAB, would that solution
do anything to alter the mutagenic characteristics of the DAB in the
waste solution?

>. . .horseradish peroxidase to
>form a solid which is readily isolated.  The fluid remaining is
>non-mutagenic, but the precipitate retains its mutagenicity.

Can you put the precipitate in the biohazard waste, which is incinerated,
or does it have to be treated differently from that, even?


Thanks,

sharon



Sharon F. Vogt, MT (ASCP)
Pathology/Special Oncology
Dekalb Medical Center
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