<div dir="auto"><div>We had our own mammal freezer failure, in plural. We moved all specimens into closed bags (for skeleton retrieval) in new freezers, hosed down the previous freezers, did them over several times with bleach and disposed of them. During work, we wore full body tyvek suits, goggles and masks, and double labs gloves on top of which we wore heavy duty rubber gloves. The biohazard potential is simply huge. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Gali Beiner (ACR)<br>Conservator, Palaeontology Lab<br>National Natural History Collections<br>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem <br>Berman Building, Edmond J. Safra campus, Givat Ram<br>Jerusalem 91904, Israel<br>Fax. 972-2-6585785<br><a href="mailto:gali.beiner@mail.huji.ac.il">gali.beiner@mail.huji.ac.il</a><br><a href="http://nnhc.huji.ac.il/">http://nnhc.huji.ac.il/</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">בתאריך יום ד׳, 21 בנוב׳ 2018, 16:58, מאת Matthew Becker <<a href="mailto:m.becker@musnathist.com">m.becker@musnathist.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending <br>
them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are <br>
in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead <br>
animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! <br>
Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real <br>
problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the <br>
roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the <br>
regular dead smell from the animals).<br>
<br>
My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill <br>
freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone <br>
has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it!<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Matthew Becker<br>
Curator of Collections<br>
Museum of Natural History + Planetarium<br>
Roger Williams Park<br>
1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907<br>
401-680-7221<br>
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