mmmm......is the gram +/- already there??   or do you innoculate it??
Hazel

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ross Stapf [SMTP:rstapf@adventisthealthcare.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:35 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
> 
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