Description
XLD-Agar is a dehydrated nutrient medium for microbiology, supplied as a 500 g plastic pack. The medium is prepared according to ISO 6579, ISO 11133, ISO 19250 and ISO 21567. In life science and microbiology laboratories, XLD-Agar is used as a medium for Salmonella and Shigella when those ISO documents are applied. The 500 g plastic pack is intended for preparing XLD agar for microbiological testing in line with ISO 6579, ISO 11133, ISO 19250 and ISO 21567. Available from manufacturer Carl ROTH, the product is XLD-Agar for microbiology in a plastic pack. Typical contexts are dehydrated nutrient media for microbiology and media for Salmonella and Shigella, together with the listed ISO standards. Life science and microbiology laboratories can employ this 500 g unit of XLD-Agar as a dehydrated nutrient medium for Salmonella and Shigella work under ISO 6579, ISO 11133, ISO 19250 and ISO 21567. XLD-Agar in a 500 g plastic presentation thus serves microbiological media preparation according to those ISO methods.
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 plastic
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Medium type: Dehydrated nutrient medium
- Standards: ISO 6579, ISO 11133, ISO 19250, ISO 21567
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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What is this article?
XLD agar is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Carl Roth 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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