Description
Compact Dry ETB is a sterile ready-to-use culture medium system for microbiology, supplied as 40 units in blister packaging. Intended for hygiene monitoring and testing of liquids, the CompactDry™ dry-plate format streamlines inoculation, incubation, and colony assessment in food, beverage, and environmental laboratory settings. Sterile presentation supports controlled workflows and reduces the need for traditional agar preparation while maintaining consistent plate handling. The 40-piece blister pack keeps individual units protected until required and is well suited to routine multi-sample testing. Pack weight is 0,452 kg, offering a practical unit size for laboratory stock and scheduled quality-control programmes. Compact Dry ETB from manufacturer Shimadzu Diagnostics aligns with CompactDry™ approaches used for microbial screening and enumeration in liquid and hygiene-related analyses. Laboratories gain a standardized plate format that integrates into established microbiological procedures and inventory practices. This product is aimed at professional laboratory use in hygiene monitoring, liquid testing, and CompactDry™ applications requiring sterile, ready-to-use plates.
This article belongs on Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), in Culture media & microbiology.
Key features
- Appearance nutrient disk: light pink
- Loss on drying: <10,0 %
- Sterility: complies
- pH value: 7,2-7,6
- Growth of test strains: complies
- Pack sizes: 40 pc(s), 240 pc(s), 8 pc(s)
- Product type: Sterile microbiology culture plates
- Brand line: CompactDry™
- Weight: 0,452 kg
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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Questions about Compact Dry ETB, sterile, for microbiology, 8 unit(s), blister
What is this article?
Compact Dry ETB, sterile, for microbiology, 8 unit(s), blister 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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