This is what we use here.


Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
404-851-7376
404-851-7831 - fax

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Ross Stapf [mailto:rstapf@adventisthealthcare.com] 
Sent:	Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:35 PM
To:	Stephen.J.Scholz@osfhealthcare.org; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject:	Re: gram controls

Try cutting up a Slim Jim meat snack and processing it.  That is what we
use.  1 Slim Jim can give you a lifetime of controls.  We got this from some
folks who moonlight at the AFIP.

Ross Stapf
Histology Supervisor 
Washington Adventist Hospital
Takoma Park MD

>>> "Scholz, Stephen J."  03/13/03
12:15PM >>>
Hello Histonetters:

Does anybody have a good source for purchasing gram +/- controls.

Our last real good gram control was from some road kill that we worked up.
Obviously that method is very hit and miss. (pun)
Thank you in advance.

Stephen J. Scholz HT(ASCP)
OSF St. Anthony Medical Center