Hi,
    Are you sure you are keeping your blocks long enough. I know some states
expect you to keep all slides and blocks for 20 years! I believe we are keeping
ours for 50! You may want to look into this further, let me know if its not
I'll move there. :-)
Amos Brooks

"Kopczynski, Charlotte" wrote:

> we used to do this but then we were keeping the blocks longer.  it was time
> consuming and then we ran out of space for storage.  we now only keep 7
> years of blocks and we no longer dip them.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: TODD LUA [SMTP:tlua@sierrabiomedical.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 6:26 PM
> > To:   'Histonet'
> > Subject:      Dipping blocks
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to find out who out there is dipping the face of there
> > paraffin blocks before storage.  If anyone has some pro's and con's about
> > this practice and if it is really necessary to preserve the block in any
> > way.  Thank you in advance for your comments.
> >
> >
> > Todd
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