ResourceLife Sciences
Spiral Plate Colony Counting
20 Jun 2013Spiral plating is used in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Laboratories requiring to quantitatively determine the number of total viable counts (TVC) of a large number of food samples often use a spiral plate counter. The spiral plating method uses a dispensing stylus that deposits a syringe drawn sample onto a rotating agar plate in a spiral pattern. In this application note read how the ProtoCOL system provides automatic counting of bacteria on these types of plates.