Petrifilm® Coliform Count Plates, PK50

Neogen® Petrifilm® Coliform Count Plates provide confirmed results in just 24 hours. By eliminating the subsequent confirmation steps required with most traditional reference methods, the Petrifilm® Coliform Count Plates can help increase productivity and reduce overall lab costs. This plate is a sample-ready culture medium system that contains Violet Red Bile (VRB) nutrients, a cold-water-soluble gelling agent, and a tetrazolium indicator that facilitates colony enumeration in food and beverage samples.

The Petrifilm® Coliform Count Plates can also be read using the Petrifilm® Plate Reader Advanced, which provides consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of the results of the Petrifilm® Plates in 6 seconds.

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:

Coliform results in 24 hours.
Plates are sample-ready, eliminating all the time-consuming steps of preparing media/agar dishes
This plate has been awarded AOAC Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #986.33 for Milk, AOAC OMA #989.10 for dairy products and AOAC OMA #991.14 for Food. NF VALIDATION certificates: Neogen® 01/02-09/89 A for all human food products (except raw shellfish), Pet Food and Environmental samples, Neogen® 01/07-03/99 B for all human food products (except raw shellfish), and Neogen® 01/02-09/89 C for all human food products by AFNOR Certification
Can be used with the Neogen® Petrifilm® Plate Reader Advanced for consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results.