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A prior study highlighted potential variations in the measurement of retained mineral fibers in different lung preparations and prompted this expanded interlaboratory analysis. Data from exposed subjects referred to a Swiss laboratory were compared with the results of mineral analysis obtained from a laboratory based in the United Kingdom.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Numbers of asbestos bodies were determined in formalin-fixed tissue and corresponding paraffin blocks of 62 subjects in Zurich by NaOCl digestion. Fiber burden was measured in a total of 104 subjects (62 subjects in Zurich and 42 subjects in Cardiff).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Asbestos body and amphibole asbestos fiber counts obtained from paraffin blocks were noted to be, in general, lower than counts obtained from formalin-fixed tissue. The limits of detection were higher in paraffin blocks than in formalin-fixed tissue. Similar trends were obtained in the two laboratories.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this comparative mineral analytic study, the authors focused on the potential significance of differing specimen preparations (formalin-fixed wet lung versus paraffin wax-embedded block extraction) investigating paired samples. The results generally reflect numerically higher fiber burdens in samples analyzed from wet lungs compared with counterpart paraffin wax tissue. 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