Description
MacConkey Agar No. 3 is a laboratory culture agar medium supplied in a 500 g pack for microbiological media preparation. The product is identified specifically as MacConkey Agar No. 3, giving laboratories a clear catalogue match when protocols or purchasing lists call for this named agar type. The 500 g unit is a practical working size for routine plate preparation, teaching laboratories and quality-control benches that do not require bulk multi-kilogram containers. From manufacturer Dinkelberg and with origin in Hungary, the medium belongs to the laboratory materials category used across culture-media workflows. Its concise product identity supports straightforward selection beside other selective and differential agar media stocked in the same laboratory store. Teams can integrate the 500 g pack into standard media-making schedules while keeping inventory compact and easy to rotate. Commodity classification places the article among culture media and related laboratory supplies, which aids coded procurement in hospitals, industry and research institutes that specify MacConkey Agar No. 3 by name and pack size.
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: MacConkey Agar No. 3
- Medium form: Agar
- Application area: Laboratory culture media
- Country of origin: Hungary
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Questions about MacConkey Agar No.3, 500g
What is this article?
MacConkey Agar No.3, 500g 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 Microbiology lab supplies.
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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The category is Culture media & microbiology. The sub-category is Dehydrated culture media (agar & broth bases). The catalogue is Microbiology lab supplies.
Shelves beside this one are Petri dishes, Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), Microbiology (other), Inoculation loops, spreaders & needles and Microbial identification, hygiene monitoring & rapid tests.
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The seven catalogues are Labware, Lab chemicals, Lab instruments, Lab consumables, Chromatography equipment, Lab safety equipment and Life Science & Microbiology.