Safe guard your Lab with SICURA!
Is your lab compliant with new formalin exposure limits – Sicura is here to help
Sicura is a new line of pre-filled containers specific for transport, fixation and storage of histological specimens
Sicura contains Neutral Buffered Formalin and a Barrier Solution, that reduces operators exposure to formalin harmful vapors
Sicura was born to answer to the changing of European Regulation on harmful reagents (formaldehyde is now cancerogenic)
Formaldehyde has been classified by Regulation as carcinogenic (category 1B) product starting from January 2016, new formalin exposure limits are 0.2 ppm.
HSA 2016 Code of Practice for the Chemical Agents Regulations
- Barrier Solution
- Mixture of reagents that create a protection barrier on the formalin surface in the containers
- Completely inert and composed of non-hazardous reagents:
- NBF: 10% Neutral Buffered Formalin, to ensure perfect tissue fixation
- NO INTERFERENCE with tissue morphology
- NO INTERFERENCE with tissue fixation timing
- NO change in standardized workflow
- Guarantee of safety for operators
- Ready-to-use
- Available in 25ml, 60ml, 250ml, 1180ml and 5500ml formats
Read the Independent Study on SICURA Formalin Exposure Limits
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