Sample Handling

The fixation step is a crucial step to grant reliable IHC and Molecular biology studies, and with Milestone’s vacuum transfer systems, labs are better able to control and monitor this step.

With UltraSAFE, SealSAFE and TissueSAFE plus, pathology laboratories are able to finally take back full control of the fixation process. This process can now be started and run under documented conditions and supervised by the laboratory staff. These systems allow for the elimination of formalin exposure, a carcinogenic, from the surgery theatres and labs. Since January 1st 2016, formalin has been listed as a class B1 carcinogenic and laboratories should not spare efforts to limit or avoid its open use in both the OR and AP.

In addition to that, a complete line of grossing devices assures, with millimetric precision, the grossing of both large and small samples, like lymph nodes.

For the best accuracy, the fixation step can also be monitored and standardized using a dedicated bench top fixation devices, such as FixSTATION 1RH, BoneSTATION and DecalMATE, which each have different cassette capacities.