Description
Orange Serum Agar is a nutrient medium for microbiology supplied for laboratory cultivation and detection work involving specialised microorganisms. It belongs to the group of dry nutrient media used in hygiene monitoring and microbiological analyses where orange serum agar is the medium of choice. The product is packed as 500 g in plastic, offering a convenient bulk format for preparing culture plates in routine testing laboratories. From manufacturer Carl ROTH, Orange Serum Agar supports applications focused on nutrient media for the detection of other special microorganisms, including workflows common in beverage, fruit-product and related hygiene-control settings that specify this medium. The 500 g unit quantity allows repeated media preparation under standard microbiological practice. Laboratories select this agar when protocols require orange serum agar as the growth substrate for acid-tolerant or other specialised organisms associated with that formulation. Suitable for dry-media preparation benches in quality-assurance and environmental microbiology laboratories performing targeted microbial detection.
This article is part of Cell culture media & sera, in Cell culture.
Key features
- Casein peptone: 10 g/l
- Orange extract: 13.5 g/l
- Glucose: 4 g/l
- Dipotassium hydrogen phosphate: 2.5 g/l
- Yeast extract: 3 g/l
- Agar: 17 g/l
- pH value: 5,5 ±0,2
- Pack size: 500 g plastic
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Medium type: Orange Serum Agar
- Form: Dry nutrient medium
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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Questions about Orange Serum Agar, for microbiology, 500 g, plastic
What is this article?
Orange Serum Agar, for microbiology, 500 g, plastic is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Carl Roth for laboratory use. It sits in Cell culture media & sera, inside Cell culture, in Life Science & Microbiology.
Cell-culture medium is the liquid a cell line grows in. Serum, often fetal bovine, supplies what the basal medium does not. With or without glutamine, with or without phenol red, and the serum origin are different products. Serum is a cold-chain article and is never part of free standard delivery.
Cell culture grows cells outside the body. The medium, often with serum, supplies what the flask does not. A flask or a dish is the vessel, treated so the cells attach or left untreated so they float. Contamination by microbes, or by another cell line, is the ordinary failure. Cold-chain articles in this work, including serum, are never part of free standard delivery. Lines are catalogued by ATCC. Papers are on PubMed. Practice is summarised by the WHO laboratory biosafety topic.
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