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De-complicating Incoming Inspection of Ready-to-Use Cultures
When you receive a shipment of ready-to-use cultures, ensuring their suitability for use in your laboratory doesn’t have to be challenging! In this blog we’ll go over what to check and how to test for success. According to USP <1117>, "Ready-to-use cultures...
Back to Basics Best Practices for Plating Techniques used with Growth Promotion Testing
When performing Growth Promotion on new batches of media, one of three plating techniques can be used: Spread Plate, Pour Plate, or Membrane Filtration. Each method aids in enumeration of the cells in the inoculum, but each is different in technique. Below we offer...
Top Ten Best Practices for Streak Plating
Streak plating is an indispensable tool in microbiology. It is so fundamental, that it is often overlooked. We have compiled a list of best practices to help you master your technique, save time, and avoid errors in your laboratory. The streak plate method relies on...
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