RE: [Histonet] Slides & blocks - Biohazard?
From: | Jackie.O'Connor@abbott.com |
Prions.
"kevin williams"
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05/18/2004 09:31 AM
To: Rcartun@harthosp.org, histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] Slides & blocks - Biohazard?
Dear Richard:
I have been told that shavings are not Biohazard, because they have
been processed, so how can a single "shaving" on a slide be considered
biohazard?
Yours faithfully,
A. Kevin Williams
>From: "Richard Cartun"
>To:
>Subject: [Histonet] Slides & blocks - Biohazard?
>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:22:21 -0400
>
>Are glass microscopic slides and paraffin tissue blocks considered
>"biohazards"? We occasionally receive either unstained slides or a
>paraffin tissue block in a "Biohazard" bag from another institution
for
>special testing. Technically speaking, the only personnel allowed to
>handle those materials would be those individuals wearing gloves.
>
>Richard Cartun
>
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