BD supplies more than 400 different BD Difco™ and BD BBL™ brand media formulations and ingredients in dehydrated form for the convenience of the laboratorian and bioprocessing specialist.
- Identical in formulation to tryptic soy agar with lecithin and polysorbate 80 (tryptic soy agar is the difco brand, trypticase soy agar is the bbl brand) also known as microbial content test agar
- For the isolation and cultivation of nonfastidious and fastidious microorganisms
- It is not the medium of choice for anaerobes
- Meets EP, USP and JP performance specifications, where applicable