3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Aerobic Count Plates, Options Available

The Petrifilm® Rapid Aerobic Count Plates are a sample-ready, culture medium system, which contains nutrients, a coldwater soluble gelling agent, and a dual sensing indicator technology that facilitates colony enumeration in 24 hours for most food matrices and environmental samples.

Proven as reliable as the SMA plate method, Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plates help agar users avoid costly retesting and delayed results due to interpretation issues caused by spreader colonies. Aerobic count bacteria are present in various food matrices and serve as indicators for food spoilage. Getting accurate aerobic bacteria counts in your raw materials, finished product and production environment is critical to making time-sensitive decisions that impact process control, cleaning decisions and, ultimately, product quality and safety.

• Provides results within 24 hours of incubation time (except for dairy powders).
• Plates are sample-ready, eliminating all the time-consuming steps of preparing media/agar dishes.
• Dual-sensing indicator technology that facilitates colony enumeration.
• Usable with the Petrifilm® Plate Reader Advanced for consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results.
• 18 Months Shelf Life from Manufacture Date.

This plate has been awarded Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #2015.13.