Ethidium Bromide

[Cornelius Krasel]

In <C8MK2x.B70 at ccu.umanitoba.ca> browns at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stuart Brown) writes:

>I once had a protocol for the "safe destruction" of EtBr.  It invlved
>acidification and then neutralization with baking soda.  Anyone out there
>know this one (I'd like to get the ref. as we also have lots of jugs of
>EtBr waiting for me to get around to getting rid of it.) 

What about the EtBr destruction protocols from Maniatis (2nd edition,
somewhere in the Appendix)?

--Cornelius.
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