Compact Dry™ Prepared Media Plates - 54052-CS

Compact Dry™ is a simple and safe procedure to determine and quantify microorganisms in food and beverage, raw materials, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries and internal environmental monitoring. The ready-to-use Compact Dry™ chromogenic plates are suitable for both in-process and final product controls.

• Ready-to-use
• Self-diffusing media - no need for a spreader
• Room temperature storage vs competitive products with storage at temperatures less than or equal to 8ºC
• Rigid transparent plates with removable lid - no leakage
• Innovative stacking design
• Easy to label
• Ability to subculture without damage to colonies
• Widest available parameters and broadest application
• Convenient, fast and accurate results

Coliform are characterized as non-sporeforming Gram-negative bacilli, defined by their ability to ferment lactose to produce acid and/or carbon dioxide gas. The enzyme in charge of breaking down lactose is B-galactosidase; present in all coliforms. Escherichia coli also utilizes 3-glucuronidase. Compact Dry™ EC contains selective agents and two chromogenic substrates: Magenta-Gal and X-Gluc capable of detecting Coliform B-galactosidase enzyme and E. coli B-glucuronidase enzyme, respectively.