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Offline jefferson987

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Quantifying residual formaldehyde used in gross anatomy scrubs
« on: June 08, 2015, 09:02:07 PM »
Anatomy labs at medical schools utilize a formaldehyde solution to preserve cadaveric specimens for dissection. Having gone through this process I know how messy it can be. Even after washing scrubs with detergent I wonder if there are trace amounts of residual formaldehyde that can be somehow quantified. I suspect the result would be extremely low if any. Can anyone think of a way to do this? Perhaps extracting water from a freshly washed scrub top and submitting for NRM spectroscopy?
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Re: Quantifying residual formaldehyde used in gross anatomy scrubs
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2015, 03:01:50 AM »
GCMS?
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Re: Quantifying residual formaldehyde used in gross anatomy scrubs
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2015, 12:39:06 AM »
I don't know much about GCMS but after reading up on it a bit it seems like thats what I want. Would I be able to submit a sample of deionized water to search for trace amounts of formaldehyde contamination? Does anyone know of a lab that I can outsource this analysis to that wouldn't mind running a small number of samples (6)?
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