Description
Compact Dry AQ is a sterile, ready-to-use medium for microbiology, intended for convenient culture work in the laboratory. It is supplied as a pack of 40 units within the CompactDry™ range of ready-to-use media for microbiological water analysis, supporting routine testing without the need to prepare poured plates from dehydrated components. The dry-plate format is designed for straightforward inoculation and colony handling in water-analysis and related microbiological workflows. Each pack has a total weight of 0,456 kg, making it practical for bench use and organised storage in quality-control or environmental laboratories. Compact Dry AQ is offered from manufacturer Shimadzu Diagnostics as part of an established ready-made media line focused on efficient, standardised microbial examination. Sterile presentation helps reduce preparation steps and handling variability compared with traditional media preparation. The product suits professional laboratories that require consistent, ready-to-use plates for microbiological water analysis and everyday culture applications where ease of use and clear workflow support are important.
This article is part of Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), in Culture media & microbiology.
Key features
- Appearance: Light pink
- Loss on drying: ≤10 %
- Sterility: Gamma irradiation over 16 kGy
- pH: 7.0-7.4
- Pack size: 40 pc(s)
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Product type: Ready-to-use CompactDry™ medium
- UNSPSC: 41106217
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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What is this article?
Compact Dry AQ 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 Microbiologie.
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 Microbiologie.
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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