Hi Annie If you look up this article or many others like it on the net the simplest and most effective disinfectants are 70% alcohol or one of the aldehydes for most organisms remembering that you are only disinfecting a hard surface with no visible volume of liquid containing organisms. We are fortunate to have 2 Thermo cryostats which have an inbuilt decontamination system using concentrated formaldehyde which can be run overnight performing a defrost and decon and as the microtome is not in the refrigerated chamber there is no problem with ice build up in the moving parts of the microtome. American Society for Microbiology Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance Gerald McDonnell1* and A. Denver Russell2 STERIS Corporation, St. Louis Operations, St. Louis, Missouri 63166,1 and Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF1 3XF, United Kingdom2 All the best Tony
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