From: pzavon**At_Symbol_Here**ROCHESTER.RR.COM
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Cadaver Discussion
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:42:59 +0000
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That pretty much allows as much as 98% formaldehyde in the formulation. Sometimes I wonder what the authors of such SDS documents are thinking. (I know, it's the lawyers who are doing their thinking for them. )

Peter Zavon, CIH
Penfield, NY 14526

---- "Nail wrote:
> Greetings,
> Many thanks for the information regarding cadaver labs.
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> A bit of context: The issue appears to be the idea of converting a classroom into a cadaver lab without exhausting the air from the room directly to the outside of the building.
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> Part of the on campus dialogue was the claim that the cadavers would not contain formaldehyde. The person making this claim produced a SDS that shows that the embalming fluid contains '1 to 100 % methanol, 1 to 100% phenol, and greater than 1 % formaldehyde'.
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> John Nail
> Professor of Chemistry
> Oklahoma City University
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