Slice it up and process it - just like tissue.

 

Joyce Weems

Pathology Manager

Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta

404-851-7376

404-851-7831 - fax

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Smith [mailto:SmithL@childrensdayton.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:09 PM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Re: gram controls

 

Is this right out of the package (ugh) or do you have to do something to it?

 

Linda Smith, HT (ASCP)
Department of Pathology
Children's Medical Center
Dayton, Ohio
(937) 641-3358
smithl@childrensdayton.org


>>> Ross Stapf <rstapf@adventisthealthcare.com> 03/13/03 02:34PM >>>
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." <Stephen.J.Scholz@osfhealthcare.org> 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