Petrifilm Plates

…majority of your plate reading needs.  The Petrifilm Plate Reader: reduces the chance for human error and eliminates variations between different lab technicians stores data for audit purposes or FDA 21CFR Part11 compliance actual color images of plates that can be stored…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Salmonella Express Plate is a sample ready media for detection of Salmonella. Benefits Utilizes the convenience and efficiency of the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate platform to deliver an all-in-one test and biochemical confirmation method. Plate…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Environmental Listeria Plates are an AOAC®-RI method [Certificate # 030601] that detects the presence of indicator Listeria. It also provides quantitative results of Listeria species from environmental samples within 29±2 hours without any enrichment steps. …

3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Coliform Count Plates are designed to provide fast, accurate results in detecting coliform contamination. High coliform contamination can be detected beginning at 4 hours with distinctive yellow zones. Presumptive coliforms may be be recorded at 14 hours.…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Coliform Count (CC) Plates contain Violet Red Bile (VRB) nutrients, a cold-water-soluble gelling agent, and a tetrazolium indicator that facilitates colony enumeration. The top film traps gas produced by the lactose fermenting coliforms. U.S. Food and Drug…

An indicator in the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Enterobacteriaceae Count Plate colors all colonies red. The top film traps gas produced by some bacteria. Acid-producing bacteria are  seen as red colonies surrounded by yellow zones. Bacteria producing gas and/or acid are considered to be…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Aqua Heterotrophic Count Plates provide fast, accurate results in enumerating heterotrophic bacteria in the bottled water industry. Benefits Utilizes the convenience and efficiency of the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate platform. Detects hetertrophic…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Aqua Enterobacteriaceae Count Plates are used for the detection of Enterobacteriaceae strains in bottled water. Enterobacteriaceae will appear as red colonies with yellow zones, red colonies with gas bubbles, or red colonies with yellow zones and gas bubbles. …

3M™ Petrifilm™ Staph Express Count Plates provide confirmed Staphylococcus aureus results. Confirmed Staph. aureus appears as distinctive red-violet colonies. If you encounter high background flora in your staph testing, the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Staph Express Disk can be used…

…facilitate colony enumeration in 24 hours for most food matrices and environmental samples. Proven as reliable as the SMA plate method, 3M Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plates help agar users avoid costly retesting and delayed results due to interpretation issues caused by spreader colonies. …

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

…and an indicator  that facilitates colony enumeration. 3M Petrifilm AC Plates are  used for the enumeration of aerobic bacteria. It is easy to interpret the 3M Petrifilm AC Plate. A red indicator  dye in the plate colors the colonies. Count all red colonies  regardless…

Plates are sample-ready, eliminating the time-consuming, cumbersome step of preparing media/agar dishes Companies worldwide trust 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates to provide accurate, efficient, consistent results 3M Petrifilm Plates use 75% less energy, use nearly 80% less water, produce 75%…

…Coliform colonies growing on the 3M Petrifilm EC  Plate produce acid which causes the pH indicator to make the gel color darker red.  Gas trapped around red coliform colonies indicates confirmed coliforms. *Do not use this plate alone for the detection of E. coli O157.…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Yeast and Mold Count Plates identify food borne yeast and mold in your food products and in your food processing environment. Yeasts are easily differentiated from molds on the plate: - Yeasts are typically indicated by small, blue-green colonies with defined edges…

The 3M™ Petrifilm™ Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plate is a time-saving, sample-ready plate designed to determine total lactic acid bacteria populations in food and environmental samples. Self-contained anaerobic environment enabled by oxygen-scavenging technology and oxygen-barrier…

…that facilitates yeast and mold enumeration. These plates are used for the enumeration of yeast and mold in bottled water industries. Benefits Utilizes the convenience and efficiency of the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate platform. Detects yeast and mold in bottled water. …

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

…Proven as reliable as the DRBC and DG-18 spread plate methods as well as the acidified PDA and YGC agar pour plate methods, 3M Petrifilm Rapid Yeast and Mold Count Plates also enhance productivity by eliminating the inoculation of multiple spread plates, the addition of antibiotics or tartaric acid,…

Microbiological CRMs designed Petrifilm® methods.

…your staph testing. This disk is used to identify S. aureus from all suspect colonies. Benefits Utilizes the convenience and efficiency of the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate platform. Proven cost effective tool for the detection of Staph. aureus. Results in as few as 22 hours.

…or dry and can target hard to reach areas for increased sampling flexibility. Self-contained sampling swab is easy to use and can reduce need for dilution mixing and pipetting for quick sampling. Ready-to-use environmental swab quickly delivers 1 mL of sample onto a 3M™ Petrifilm Plate.

… When used with the 3M™ Electonic Pipettor, 3M™ Pipettor Tips enhance the efficiency and labor-saving benefits of 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates by providing accurate and precise pipetting of samples. 3M Pipettor Tips detach quickly and easily from the 3M Electronic Pipettor for…

3M™ Petrifilm™ Salmonella Express Confirmation Disk for biochemical detection of Salmonella organisms. Benefits Confirmation disk easily added to plate for biochemical confirmation. Results in 4-5 hours.

…colony: 0.05 mm Detects and counts up to 7 colors on the same dish Inhibition zone reading with EUCAST, CA-SFM and editable database PetriFilm™, Compact Dry™ RIDA™ Count, Sanita-kun™ and filtration membrane reading  Scan 4000 Scan 4000 is an…