[Histonet] guidelines for using a microwave designated for food, but used to heat up histogel

[Eileen Akemi Allison]

Went on line to get MSDS regarding HistoGel.  Here’s the link.  https://www.medline.com/media/catalog/Docs/MSDS/MSD_SDSD91968.pdf <https://www.medline.com/media/catalog/Docs/MSDS/MSD_SDSD91968.pdf>

Happy eating from a microwave which has been used at MD Anderson for HistGel!

Best regards,
Akemi

> On Dec 12, 2019, at 5:18 AM, Kathleen S Cormier <cormier at mit.edu> wrote:
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> Can I share that we had a pathologist  (back in the day) use our lab microwave to re-heat his coffee? It had Schiff’s reagent stains all over the inside of it. Some people really don’t have any common sense… 
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> Kathy Cormier
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> Hope Babette Tang Histology Facility
> Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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>> On Dec 12, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Eileen Akemi Allison via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu <mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu>> wrote:
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>> Good morning histopeeps:
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>> We recently brought on an Ophthalmology Pathologist from MD Anderson and they use histogel for orienting their thin eye specimens and need a microwave to heat it up.  We do not have a microwave in the lab for their use but I had ordered one for them.  I just found out they used the microwave in our lab lounge to heat up histonet which was opened and being stored in our gross area refrigerator.  
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>> Do any of you know the CAP regulation against use of laboratory reagents being used in a microwave being used for food consumption?  I ended up removing the microwave they used and put it in the histology lab.  Our Director wants me to write a formal letter to submit to him.
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>> Thank you in advance for your impute!
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>> Akemi Allison, BS,  HT/HTL (ASCP)
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