Petri dishes

Choose glass when the title says glass. Those dishes are the reusable ones. Choose polystyrene, written PS in the title, when you want the disposable dish. The diameter and the height are in the title. Order the diameter your rack and your incubator accept.

Choose sterile when the title says sterile, for culture work. If the title does not say sterile, do not treat the dish as sterile. Questions about a diameter that is not on the shelf: sales@luminixhealth.com.

The standard size for pouring and streaking is the medium diameter used in most labs; smaller dishes suit small volumes or cell work, larger ones give more surface area. A taller dish holds a thicker agar layer and dries out less during long incubation. Check the exact diameters and heights on the product page. Ready media are in culture media and microbiology. Need advice for your set-up? Mail sales@luminixhealth.com.

Vents are small ribs that leave a narrow air gap between lid and base. They reduce condensation and allow gas exchange, which suits aerobic cultures. Dishes without vents dry out less during long incubation and are better for anaerobic work or plates you store for a while. Choose by incubation time and organism. Both versions are in Petri dishes; see also microbiology. For a quote or a second opinion, write to sales@luminixhealth.com.

A divided dish, with two or three compartments, lets you run several media or strains in a single dish and saves incubator space. A contact plate has a domed agar surface that you press onto a surface to sample it, which is common in hygiene monitoring. Both are filled with culture medium like a normal dish. See microbial identification, hygiene monitoring and rapid tests. Questions about a specific product? Contact sales@luminixhealth.com.

Dishes are stacked in sleeves, and the sleeves are packed in boxes. Open a sterile sleeve only when you need the dishes and close it again if some remain. Store empty dishes dry and dust-free. Poured plates with medium belong in the fridge, upside down, so condensation does not drip onto the agar. Ready-poured plates are in ready-to-use culture media. Unsure which one fits? Ask sales@luminixhealth.com.

A Petri dish is the shallow lidded plate agar is poured into, or a sample is placed in. Diameter and whether it is vented, and whether it arrives sterile and empty or already filled, are the choices. A 90 mm dish is the ordinary one. Slippable lids and vented lids differ in how they dry a plate.

A culture medium is the food and the solid or liquid home of a microorganism. Dehydrated media are powders the laboratory dissolves and sterilises. Ready-to-use plates and tubes are already that. A Petri dish is the plate. Selective media let one kind of organism grow and hold another back. The formulation and the supplements, not the colour of the agar, are the specification. Reference strains are at ATCC. Methods are on PubMed. Biosafety practice is the WHO laboratory biosafety topic.

This shelf belongs to Culture media & microbiology, inside Microbiology lab supplies. Luminix Health distributes this range for laboratory use.

The neighbouring shelves are Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), Microbiology (other), Inoculation loops, spreaders & needles and Microbial identification, hygiene monitoring & rapid tests. The category above this shelf is Culture media & microbiology.

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