Description
Compact Dry ECO is a sterile, ready-to-use medium for microbiology, offered for convenient culture applications in the laboratory. It is supplied in a pack of 40 units as part of the Compact Dry ready-made media range, enabling laboratories to work without preparing traditional agar plates from dehydrated media. The format supports efficient inoculation and colony handling in routine microbiological testing and related quality-control workflows. A total pack weight of 0,456 kg keeps the set practical for bench use and organised storage. Compact Dry ECO comes from manufacturer Shimadzu Diagnostics and belongs to a ready-made media portfolio used in life-science and microbiology laboratories. Sterile presentation helps reduce preparation steps and handling variability versus conventional poured media. The product is intended for professional microbiological use where standardised, ready-to-use plates improve workflow consistency. Its compact dry-plate design is suited to laboratories seeking reliable ready-made media for everyday culture work with minimal preparation overhead.
This article is part of Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), in Culture media & microbiology.
Key features
- Appearance: Light yellow
- Loss on drying: ≤10 %
- Sterility: Gamma irradiation over 16 kGy
- pH: 6.8-7.2
- Pack size: 40 pc(s)
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Product type: Ready-to-use Compact Dry medium
- UNSPSC: 41106217
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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What is this article?
Compact Dry ECO is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Shimadzu Diagnostics for laboratory use. It sits in Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), inside Culture media & microbiology, in Life Science & Microbiology.
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.
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The category is Culture media & microbiology. The sub-category is Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles). The catalogue is Life Science & Microbiology.
Shelves beside this one are Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases), Petri dishes, Microbiology (other), Inoculation loops, spreaders & needles and Microbial identification, hygiene monitoring & rapid tests.
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