3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Aerobic Count (RAC) plates offer technology that facilitates colony enumeration in as little as 24 hours for most food matrices/environmental samples and resists distortion caused by widespread colonies.

Key Features and Benefits:

Provides results within 24 hours of incubation time (except for dairy powders)
Plates are sample-ready, eliminating the time-consuming, cumbersome step of preparing media/agar dishes
Can be used with the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate Reader for consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results
This plate has been awarded Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #2015.13. for Selected Food; NF VALIDATION 3M 01/17-11/16 for Dairy products by AFNOR Certification
Dual-sensing indicator technology that facilitate colony enumeration
Companies worldwide trust 3M Petrifilm Plates to provide accurate, efficient, consistent results

Aerobic count bacteria are present in a variety of 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.

3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Aerobic Count Plates are a sample-ready culture medium system that contains nutrients, a coldwater-soluble gelling agent, and a dual-sensing indicator technology that 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.

The 3M Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plate can also be read using the 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader, which provides consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results of 3M Petrifilm Plates (Aerobic Count, Rapid Aerobic Count, Coliform Count, E. coli/Coliform Count, Enterobacteriaceae Count, and Select E. coli Count ) in 4 seconds.

The 3M Petrifilm Plate Advantage

In today’s environment of heightened focus on food safety and increasingly stringent quality requirements, labs are under pressure to provide tests that are fast, reliable, and consistently accurate. 3M Petrifilm Plates have demonstrated consistent performance that has been cited globally with more than 200 certificates, recognitions, validations, and peer-reviewed publications. For more than 30 years, food safety professionals around the world have put their trust in 3M Petrifilm Plates. That’s because 3M Petrifilm Plates have streamlined, standardized, and simplified the process of microbial quantitative indicator testing, improving productivity and helping ensure the highest levels of product quality.