[Nhcoll-l] treatment for histological slides

[Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)]

Hello all,

I am wondering if any of you have knowledge about how to treat histological/microscope slides for pests. I do realise that they are low risk and not actually at risk themselves (except to labels), but I expect that the boxes they are in could potentially harbour things like silverfish, the odd sheltering dermestid, etc. We have thousands of slides in old boxes, as well as on new microscope cabinet trays, that need to be decontaminated before moving in to a new purpose-built building. My understanding is that there is risk associated with either low or high temperature treatment, which might have negative effects on either the glass itself or the slide cover adhesives. Anoxia could be a solution, but I am not sure it is practical at this scale? Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Tonya

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Dr. Tonya M. Haff
Collection Manager
Australian National Wildlife Collection
CSIRO
+61(0)419569109
https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/collections/anwc

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