Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles)

Here you will find everything your laboratory needs for ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), such as: compact dry, gridded, white-black, plate count agar and microsart validation standard. This range is for biotech, hospitals, R&D, teaching and (quality) control. This collection holds 234 articles. The catalogue holds more than 150.000 articles. In-stock articles ship in two to five business days.

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Microsart® ADDfilter 100, PVDF, white without grid, 0,45 µm, Ø 47 mm, 100 ml, Sartorius, art. 16D041006ACGSartorius
Plate count agar, dehydrated, 500 g, Altmann Analytik, art. OXCM0325BAltmann Analytik
BACTair™ Culture Media Plates, Sartorius, art. 14321110ACDSartorius
BACTair™ Culture Media Plates, Sartorius, art. 14320110ACDSartorius
Biosart® 100 Culture Media, Sartorius, art. 1640002SBKSartorius
Microsart® @media, Sartorius, art. 1431747ACNSartorius
Agar media, Sartorius, art. 14137KSartorius
Microsart® @media, Sartorius, art. 1431447ACNSartorius
Compact Dry YMR, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAN.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry VP, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAL.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry LM, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAE.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry LS, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAH.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry CFR, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAA.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry TCR, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAK.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry AQ, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LA8.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry ECO, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LAC.1Shimadzu Diagnostics
Compact Dry CF-L, Shimadzu Diagnostics, art. 3LA9.1Shimadzu Diagnostics

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Questions about Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles)

Plates, tubes, bottles or dry plates?

Poured plates are ready for streaking, spreading or air sampling straight from the pack, for example the sterile Sabouraud culture-medium plate. Tubes suit membrane filtration and small-scale work, like the nutrient agar in 50 tubes. Bottled broths, such as MacConkey broth to Ph. Eur. and USP, 180 ml, are used for enrichment and liquid tests. Dry plates are sterile, ready to inoculate and take little storage space, which helps in field testing and small labs: the dry culture plate for yeasts and moulds, 40 pieces is one example. Questions: sales@luminixhealth.com.

How do I store ready-to-use media?

Follow the storage temperature on the label or product page. Many poured media and ampoules are kept refrigerated, for example the Sabouraud medium in ampoules, stored at 2–8 °C; others may be kept at room temperature. Store them in their original packaging, away from light, and let refrigerated plates reach room temperature before use to avoid condensation. Check the expiry date on every pack and use the oldest stock first. If you want longer shelf life and full control over volumes, prepare media yourself from dehydrated culture media.

Why Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles)?

A ready-to-use plate, tube or bottle is the medium already prepared and sterile. It saves the autoclave and it expires. The fill volume, the supplements and the storage temperature are the specification. A plate that has dried out or grown a colony of its own is finished.

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.

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