Food and Beverage Products & Reviews

BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA II is designed for the qualitative, direct detection of nasal colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

BD has combined two products to formulate the BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSAII/CHROMagar™ SA Bi-plate. This product is used for the qualitative direct detection of nasal colonization by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and as a selective medium for the isolation, enumeration, and identification of S. aureus.

BD has combined two products to formulate the BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ Orientation / TSA II I Plate™ for urine cultures. As today’s laboratories are challenged to do more with less, this format standardizes urine culture processing to a single catalog number. The I Plate allows for the visual identification of common urinary pathogens helping to improve turnaround time for positives.

BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ Candida medium is a selective and differential medium for presumptively identifying members of the genus Candida from a primary isolation plate. Due to the differences in morphology and colors of the yeast colonies, this medium is particularly useful in the detection of mixed yeast cultures in specimens. Colonies of C. albicans appear light to medium green, C. tropicalis colonies appear light blue to metall…

The BD Difco™ and BD BBL™ brands have been providing high quality dehydrated culture media (DCM) for use in quality control testing in a variety of applications within the pharmaceutical/biotech, food, dairy, beverage and personal care industries, as well as in academic institutions. BD offers more than 400 DCM formulations and packaging sizes to meet a variety of testing and manufacturing requirements.

BD BBL™ prepared tubed media offer a variety of media types and fill volumes to fit your needs. Tubes are borosilicate glass with black screw caps securely fitted to prevent loss of moisture. A special resilient rubber liner is affixed inside each cap with a unique adhesive that resists displacement even during autoclaving. Larger tubes permit easy inoculation or streaking of media. Prepared slanted media are supplied in tube…

A selective and differential medium for the isolation and presumptive identification of Salmonella species from stool with a highly specific chromogenic reaction.

For detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)

BBL CHROMagar ESBL biplate is a chromogenic selective screening medium for the detection of Enterobacteriaceae-producing, extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs):

Elite-1, 100% dimethyl polysiloxane, columns are highly versatile, non-polar, cross-linked general purpose columns that are rugged, exhibiting long column lifetime, low bleed, and high maximum operating temperatures.

The Elite-5 is a 5% diphenyl/95% dimethyl polysiloxane stationary phase. It is regarded as a general purpose, low polarity phase that is the most popular GC stationary phase.  The Elite-5 is a crosslinked phase in which all residual catalysts and low molecular weight fragments have been removed providing a tight mono-modal distribution and extremely low bleed.

The Elite-5ms phase (5% 1,4-bis(dimethylsiloxy)phenylene, 95% dimethyl polysiloxane) incorporates a phenyl group in the polymer backbone to improve thermal stability, reduce bleed and make the phase less prone to oxidation. This results in inertness to active compounds and extremely low bleed for sensitive MS applications. 

The Epic™ line of LC columns is based on high density monomerically bonded phases produced through a proprietary bonding process. Epic HPLC columns are compatible with a wide range of organic modifiers and buffers and stable over a wide pH range. All Epic products use an ultra-high purity metal free silica and undergo strict quality control testing. For flexibility, we offer a wide range of column sizes as well being fully sc…

Under highly aqueous conditions, our novel proprietary bonding chemistry allows the bonded chains to remain fully extended in the mobile phase. Epic™ Polar can retain highly water-soluble compounds such as small organic acids, water-soluble vitamins, purines and pyrimidines, catecholamines and other polar compounds. The Epic Polar column offers improved polar compound retention under RP conditions which has been further refin…

The unique properties of Epic™ Naphthyl places its selectivity between graphitized carbon and alkyl type stationary phases. Epic Naphthyl is a naphthalene-based material, with high bonding density and exhibits strong π-π interaction and charge transfer interactions and performs well for diastereomer separations and non-polar compounds. Epic HPLC and UHPLC columns are compatible with a wide range of organic modifiers and buffe…

Fully simultaneous ICP-OES instruments, delivering exceptionally fast performance, robustness and matrix tolerance

The first ICP-MS in its category to boast four quads, delivering performance to the power of four 

NeoSpectra scanners are portable and handheld spectral sensing devices based on FT-IR spectroscopy which can be used in a wide variety of material sensing applications. 

The DynamiQ-S is a micro gas chromatograph for fast and accurate gas analysis in industrial processes and factory automation applications. The instrument can be programmed for continuous unattended process monitoring as well as manual gas analysis. Extremely compact, easy to handle and requiring little maintenance, the DynamiQ-S enable fast and accurate on-line ga analysis anywhere. The integrated micro GC chips enable analys…

The Contichrom CUBE is a benchtop continuous chromatography system for process development of (bio-)pharmaceuticals.  The five-in-one functionality includes single-column and integrated batch chromatography, as well as twin-column counter-current processes such as capture (CaptureSMB®) for monoclonal antibodies and MCSGP for peptides and oligonucleotides.  Additionally, the N-Rich® process functionality allows the rapid isolat…

Digital DNA sequencing to confidently detect low-frequency variants

For nanoplate-based digital PCR applications

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