Description
R2A Agar is a microbiological culture medium supplied in a 500 g laboratory pack for professional media preparation. This R2A formulation is intended for routine culture work where an R2A agar medium is specified in validated methods and internal procedures. The 500 g pack size supports regular plate preparation in water, environmental and general microbiology laboratories without excessive leftover stock. Clear product identity on the pack helps media-kitchen staff select the correct medium quickly during daily workflows. Originating from Hungary and offered by manufacturer Dinkelberg, the material integrates into standard dehydrated-media inventories used alongside other selective and non-selective bases. Laboratories can dissolve and sterilise the medium according to their own validated protocols and quality systems. Practical packaging supports orderly storage and traceable dispensing in controlled laboratory environments. R2A Agar is suited to trained personnel performing heterotrophic and related plate-count examinations that call for this medium type, and it complements broader culture-media ranges used in monitoring and quality-control programmes.
This article is part of Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), in Culture media & microbiology. See also Petri dishes.
Key features
- Pack size: 500 g
- Product type: R2A Agar
- Country of origin: Hungary
- Classification system: UNSPSC-17
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What is this article?
R2A Agar, PH EUR, 500 g is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Dinkelberg for laboratory use. It sits in Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), inside Culture media & microbiology, in Life Science & Microbiology.
A dehydrated medium is a powder the laboratory dissolves, sterilises and pours. The formulation name, the supplements it still needs, and the grams per litre are the specification. Two powders with similar names, one selective and one not, grow different organisms.
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.
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