[Histonet] : Are gloves required when cutting FFPE blocks?

[Caroline Miller]

I tend to leave my squames  on the slide, so I always wear gloves too

mills


Caroline Miller (mills)
Director of Histology
3Scan, Inc
415-2187297

> On Nov 27, 2015, at 5:50 AM, White, Lisa M. via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
> 
> I am not aware of any regulation to use gloves to section.
> 
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> However I do use them to section on the microtome, I got really tired of
> picking human out from under my fingernails.  
> 
> The other 4 HT that I work with do not use them on standard microtome
> sections.
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> 
> CJD would be the only exception, but then again the all of the
> processing equipment would then be a problem also.
> 
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