3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Coliform Count Plates
3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Coliform Count Plates are designed to provide fast, accurate results in detecting coliform contamination.
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I will definitively use them! Even untrained analysts feel comfortable with them...
Food analyses
This system is very interesting, if compared with the traditional Petrifilm plates for Coliforms. The rapid result can be really helpful when speaking of reliable and speedy release of certain food samples, especially cheeses and dairy edible products.
Review Date: 26 Jul 2022 | 3M Bioanalytical
Very easy, very reliable, and cheap!
Rapid coliform counts in foods
3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Coliform Count Plates are extremely useful in my work! 6-14 hours only are needed for a 1st-level result, and I can subsequently concentrate my efforts on several samples instead of a numerous group of equally-probable suspected samples...
Review Date: 18 Jun 2021 | 3M Bioanalytical
- Coliform results in 6 - 14 hours. Confirmed coliform results at 24 hours
- Plates are sample-ready, eliminating the time-consuming, cumbersome step of preparing media/agar dishes
- Highly sensitive indicator provides faster results
- This plate has been awarded Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #2000.15 for Food and NF VALIDATION certificates: 3M-01/5-03/97 A for all Human food products , 3M-01/5-03/97 B for All humand food products and 3M-01/5-03/97 C for All humand food products (except process pork products) by AFNOR Certification
- Food processors and contract labs worldwide trust 3M Petrifilm Plates to provide accurate, efficient, consistent results
3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Coliform Count Plates are designed to provide fast, accurate results in detecting coliform contamination.
Coliform colonies may begin to appear at 6 hours of incubation as discrete yellow zones indicating colony forming units (CFUs). Presumptive coliforms may be be recorded at 14 hours. Confirmed coliforms will appear as red colonies associated with gas after 8 – 24 hours of incubation.
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-review 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.
