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

[Liz Chlipala]

You don’t need to heat up histogel in a microwave its quicker that way but if you set an oven at around 65 to 70 it will melt in around 20 minutes or so, that’s what we do.  It can get messy in a microwave.

Liz

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From: Eileen Akemi Allison via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 6:32 AM
To: Kathleen S Cormier <cormier at mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] guidelines for using a microwave designated for food, but used to heat up histogel

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><https://www.medline.com/media/catalog/Docs/MSDS/MSD_SDSD91968.pdf%3e>

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><mailto:cormier at mit.edu%3e> 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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>> On Dec 12, 2019, at 7:12 AM, Eileen Akemi Allison via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> <mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu>><mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu%3e%3e> 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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