NEOGEN 6478/6479 Petrifilm Rapid Total Germ Count Plate

NEOGEN Petrifilm Rapid Total Germ forms a sample-ready culture medium system that enables colony counting for most food matrices and environmental samples. Presence and quantity of aerobic bacteria. Provides results after an incubation period of 24 hours (except for dairy powders). Ready to use; the time-consuming, cumbersome preparation of media/agar dishes is no longer necessary.

• Sample-ready culture medium system enabling colony counting for most food matrices and environmental samples.
• Counting plate for the presence and quantity of aerobic bacteria.
• Provides results after an incubation period of 24 hours (except for dairy powders).
• Ready to use; the time-consuming, cumbersome preparation of media/agar dishes is no longer necessary.
• NEOGEN Petrifilm Plates consume 75% less energy, use 79% less water, produce 75% less greenhouse gases, and result in 66% less waste (by weight and volume) compared to competing agar methods.
• This plate has been awarded Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #2015.13.

NEOGEN Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plate is a sample-ready culture medium system that contains nutrients, a cold-water soluble gelling agent, and dual-sensing indicator technology enabling colony counting within 24 hours for most food matrices and environmental samples. The NEOGEN Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plate, which has proven to be as reliable as the SMA plate method, helps agar users avoid costly retesting and delayed results due to interpretation problems caused by dispersal colonies.

The NEOGEN Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plate can also be read using the NEOGEN Petrifilm Plate Reader, which ensures consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results from NEOGEN Petrifilm Plates (Aerobic Count, Rapid Aerobic Count, Coliform Count, E. coli/Coliform Count, Enterobacteriaceae Count, and Select E. coli Count) in 4 seconds.

Companies worldwide rely on NEOGEN Petrifilm Plates for accurate, efficient, and consistent results. In today's environment, with an increased focus on food safety and increasingly stringent quality requirements, laboratories are under pressure to deliver tests that are fast, reliable, and consistently accurate. NEOGEN Petrifilm Plates have demonstrated consistent performance cited worldwide in over 200 certificates, recognitions, validations, and peer-reviewed publications. For over 30 years, food safety professionals around the world have trusted NEOGEN Petrifilm Plates.