Petrifilm® Yeast and Mold Count Plates, PK100

Neogen® Petrifilm® Yeast and Mold Count Plates are sample-ready culture medium systems that contain nutrients supplemented with antibiotics, a cold-water-soluble gelling agent, and an indicator that facilitates yeast and mold enumeration. The Petrifilm® Yeast and Mold Count Plates are used for the enumeration of yeast and mold in the food, beverage, and bottled water industries. The Petrifilm® Yeast and Mold Count Plate provides results between 3 to 5 days. Yeasts are easily differentiated from molds on the plate:

Yeasts are typically indicated by small, blue-green colonies with defined edges and no foci.
Molds are indicated by large, variably coloured colonies with diffuse edges and centre foci.

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:

Yeast and Mold results in 3-5 days.
Plates are sample-ready, eliminating all the time-consuming steps of preparing media/agar dishes.
This plate has been awarded AOAC® Official Methods of AnalysisSM (OMA) #997.02.