Ifmaterials are transferred into other containers, the employer mustensure that these are labeled as well, unless they fall under theportable container exemption (paragraph f(7)). In terms of labelingsystems, you can choose to use the labels provided by your supplierson the containers.
Confidence votes 178. Iodine is often called a mordant when used in the gram stain. What its function is, is to form large crystals with the Crystal Violet dye used as the first stain.
cells are not treated with the iodine mordant after primary staining, they too will lose their primary stain at the decolorizing step and appear as Gram-negative cells. The timing of the steps of the Gram stain is not critical but depends on the density of the cell suspension applied to the slide and the nature of the bacterial culture.