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.
Confidence votes 186. Gram's iodine stain is applied after the culture is stained with the primary stain. It acts as a mordant, fixing the primary stain to the cell wall while lending no additional colour to the cell (i.e. the mordant itself is not a stain).