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