Petrifilm® Staph Express Disks, PK20

The Neogen® Petrifilm® Staph Express (STX) System consists of Neogen® Petrifilm® Staph Express Count Plates (STX) and Neogen® Petrifilm® Staph Express Disks (STX), which are packaged separately. Used when background flora exists in your Staphylococcus testing. This disk is used to identify Staphylococcus aureus from all suspect colonies.

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:

Final results between 1 to 3 hours.
Proven cost-effective tool for the detection of Staphylococcus aureus.
Unique system to facilitate the enumeration of aureus
Can be used with the Petrifilm® Plate Reader Advanced for consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results.
This plate has been awarded: AOAC® Official Method SM 2003.07; AOAC® Official Method SM 2003.08; AOAC® Official Method SM 2003.11; AFNOR validated method (3M -01/9-04/03); NordVal Validation Ref. No.: 2003-20-5408-00019; Compendium of Analytical Methods. Health Protection and Food Branch. Health Canada. Laboratory Procedure MFLP-21