Petrifilm® Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plates, PK500

Neogen^® Petrifilm^® Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plates (LAB) are self-contained, sample-ready-culture-medium systems that contain nutrients, selective agents, a cold-water-soluble gelling agent, and a tetrazolium indicator that facilitates colony enumeration. The Petrifilm^® Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plates (LAB) contain oxygen-scavenging compounds that create an anaerobic environment for the recovery of homofermentative and heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria in the food and beverage industries.

Anaerobic made easy

Every day, food processors, retailers, and consumers are forced to throw out food spoiled with lactic acid bacteria. These normally useful bacteria can cause undesirable changes to ready-to-eat meats and seafood, dressings and sauces, vegetables, and many other processed foods. This not only contributes to food waste and costly recalls but can also damage your brand reputation. Now you can get true anaerobic results using standard aerobic incubation conditions. The self-contained anaerobic environment in this plate enhances the recovery of lactic acid bacteria, providing fast, accurate results for effective control of product quality and shelf life.

The 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. Petrifilm^® Plates have demonstrated consistent performance that has been cited globally with more than 200 certificates, recognitions, validations, and peer-reviewed publications. For almost 40 years, food safety professionals around the world have put their trust in Petrifilm^® Plates. That’s because Petrifilm^® Plates have streamlined, standardised, and simplified the process of microbial quantitative indicator testing, improving productivity and helping ensure the highest levels of product quality.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Results in 48 hours of incubation time.
• Plates are sample-ready, eliminating all the time-consuming steps of preparing media/agar dishes.
• Self-contained anaerobic environment enabled by oxygen-scavenging technology and oxygen-barrier films. No gas packs, chambers, or CO2 incubators are needed.
• All-in-one method for differentiation of gas-producing colonies without Durham tubes or extra steps.
• This plate has been awarded Performance Tested Method (PTM) #041701 for selected foods and NF VALIDATION Neogen^® 01/19-11/17 by AFNOR Certification for all human foods (excluding yoghurts) and production environmental samples.