Dana doesn’t know how to make wet specimens.
If the jars are sealed you don’t need to refill them and if you do it’s every few years, not months. Especially formalin. I’ve never refilled my formalin wet specimens because I sealed the jars when I made them. Also my qualifications for this information are that I am a licensed embalmer and funeral director. Formalin is incredibly toxic to pretty much all living beings. It takes less than 20ml of formalin ingested to be completely 100% fatal. Even just contact with eyes, skin or GI tract with small amounts of formalin can cause seriously burns and permanent blindness. We wear gowns, eye protection, and masks or chemical respirators and puncture resistant gloves when handling formalin and formaldehyde at work. There have been times where I’ve forgot to put the lid on my embalming machine at work while working with formaldehyde and the vapours were so acrid my eyes watered so hard I couldn’t see and had to go sit outdoors and get fresh air from coughing so hard, even with a KN95 on.
Formalin is just mix of formaldehyde and methanol and we all know formaldehyde is a carcinogen and very toxic, pretty sure that is taught in high school biology. The fact she is potentially handling formalin in her home by refilling these specimens and also has open vessels or formalin that she can easily open to refill in her home is probably one of the most negligent things I’ve seen her do while having children and animals in her house. I cannot reiterate how nasty this shit is as someone who has worked with it every day for years.
If the jars are sealed you don’t need to refill them and if you do it’s every few years, not months. Especially formalin. I’ve never refilled my formalin wet specimens because I sealed the jars when I made them. Also my qualifications for this information are that I am a licensed embalmer and funeral director. Formalin is incredibly toxic to pretty much all living beings. It takes less than 20ml of formalin ingested to be completely 100% fatal. Even just contact with eyes, skin or GI tract with small amounts of formalin can cause seriously burns and permanent blindness. We wear gowns, eye protection, and masks or chemical respirators and puncture resistant gloves when handling formalin and formaldehyde at work. There have been times where I’ve forgot to put the lid on my embalming machine at work while working with formaldehyde and the vapours were so acrid my eyes watered so hard I couldn’t see and had to go sit outdoors and get fresh air from coughing so hard, even with a KN95 on.
Formalin is just mix of formaldehyde and methanol and we all know formaldehyde is a carcinogen and very toxic, pretty sure that is taught in high school biology. The fact she is potentially handling formalin in her home by refilling these specimens and also has open vessels or formalin that she can easily open to refill in her home is probably one of the most negligent things I’ve seen her do while having children and animals in her house. I cannot reiterate how nasty this shit is as someone who has worked with it every day for years.