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<DIV>We had this same problem. We had control over everything, too. We stopped using Sta-On, etrc. ANd we still had the problem - haziness, it looked like the mucin was staining, but we also had the fuzziness on non-GI's as well. It turned out to be two things--the hematoxylin we were using and the timing of it and the temperature of the water on the stainer--it was too cold.</DIV></BODY></HTML>