Pre-identified consumables for tissue processing and method

A method of ensuring a first product or groups of products supplied to a first medical establishment and a second product or groups of products supplied to a second medical establishment, which first and second medical establishments are independent of each other, comprise an identifier which is unique to that first product or groups of products supplied to the first medical establishment and different to the identifier applied to the second product or groups of products supplied to the second medical establishment, the method comprising:

• applying at a point of manufacture of the first product or groups of products a first unique identifier to the first product or groups of products destined for the first medical establishment and applying at a point of manufacture of the second product a second unique identifier which is different to the first unique identifier to the second product or groups of products destined for the second medical establishment;
• and
• supplying the first and second product or groups of products to the first and second medical establishments, respectively, for use in a histology process or cell pathology process.