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Science in Pills – 3. Safe Formalin Handling


Kaiser Permanente Sacramento AORN 2025

Science in Pills is our latest valuable resource, designed to answer your most common questions through scientific evidence. This initiative curates a collection of insightful articles, organized by topic, to provide you with reliable, research-backed information in a concise and accessible format.

3. Specimen Collection

In this edition of Science in Pills, we offer practical solutions that meet quality and safety requirements in specimen handling. It also helps resolve common transfer challenges—contributing to safer working environments and more consistent, high-quality tissue evaluations. 

For a more comprehensive understanding, we invite you to read the full articles.

Safe and standardized specimen collection and transfer from OR to AP

ARTICLE 1

“Enhancing Staff Safety in the Operating Room (OR): The Role of the Automatic Formalin Dispense Machine”

Jennice Singh, Amelia Dayucos, Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center

ARTICLE 2

“Fresh tissue handling pathway for the 100,000 Genomes Project”

West Midlands Genomic Medicine Centre, NHS UK. Pathology in Practice

ARTICLE 3

EN-ISO 20166-4:2021

International Organization for standardization – ISO

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