Hi,

I have a way to use the bags that only requires one hand, if you are
interested.  I use a glass 75 mm powder funnel.  With the funnel inside the
bag, I pour from the specimen jar to the bag over a sink.  I use several
rinses of distilled water to wash any tissue into the bottom of the bag.
This water rinse rescues any tissue that may get left on the glass of the
funnel.  I hope you find this helpful:-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	RSRICHMOND@aol.com [SMTP:RSRICHMOND@aol.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:24 PM
> To:	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject:	nylon embedding bags?
> 
> Karen Dulany asked about nylon embedding bags.
> 
> Curiously enough, I've just encountered these bags for the first time in
> my 
> locum tenens travels, in the Cayman Islands of all places. As Richard 
> Rodriguez noted, they're offered by Shandon through Scientific Products.
> They 
> come in three sizes. The smallest fits into an ordinary cassette. They are
> 
> called Shandon Tissue Bags. I do not know what they cost, since Good 
> Management has come to Cayman and all catalogs are consequently locked up
> in 
> the lab manager's office.
> 
> Grossing without an assistant, I have not been too pleased with them. They
> 
> are hard to hold open and get specimens into, and are real time-wasters
> for 
> that reason. With an assistant to hold the bags open or bag the specimens,
> 
> they might be more practical. The histotechnologist here has not found it 
> necessary to staple the bags or write on them, as the directions suggest.
> He 
> does tear the bags open. I haven't watched him embed.
> 
> Here are the directions and the catalog numbers from the package.
> 
> Shandon Tissue Bags (last ordered July 2000 here.)
> 
> Boxes of 1000 small size bags, 67740010. (They also offer standard size 
> 67740009, and large size 67740011). 
> 
> 1. Only use once.
> 2. Use a pencil to label the bag with the specimen number.
> 3. Hold open neck of bag.
> 4. Insert tissue into bag.
> 5. Fold over top edge of bag and close with staple.
> 6. After processing remove staple.
> 7. Hold each side of the bag and pull the sides outward tearing the sides
> of 
> the bag.
> 8. Remove tissue and discard bag.
> 
> Bob Richmond
> Samurai Pathologist
> Knoxville TN
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