Tag Archives: Microbiology

How to avoid contamination in your biological safety cabinet (BSC)

Biological safety cabinets (BSCs) serve two main purposes: Protect your samples from contamination by external [...]

Anaerobic Workstations for Food Microbiology Labs

Does your lab test for anaerobic bacteria? Campylobacter Clostridia Bifidobacteria (probiotics) e.g. ISO 29981. Milk [...]

IRIS Salmonella – Results on 1 plate in 37 Hours!

IRIS Salmonella® is a rapid chromogenic method for detection of Salmonella spp. in human food, [...]

Protos 3 Automated Colony Counter and Chromogenic ID System

Increased throughput, reproducibility and traceability for food, environmental & research labs Counting bacterial colonies is [...]

The importance of monitoring environmental isolates

Tracking and trending environmental isolates is a growing concern for pharmaceutical companies, since objectionable organisms [...]

Replacing a Class I Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC) – what are my options?

Biological Safety Cabinet (BSC) MSC regularly receive requests from customers, particularly in the clinical field, [...]

Manual vs Automated Colony Counting

Accurately counting the number of colony-forming units (CFU) on an agar plate forms the basis [...]

NEW – The Polywel Automated Tube/Bottle Filler

Is your lab dispensing large volumes of liquid media into tubes? Do you need to [...]

2019 Updates to Microbiology Testing Standards

Staying up to date with the most current microbiology testing standards is a constant requirement [...]

ProtoCOL 3 Automated Colony Counter – Fast, Accurate, Reproducible

As all microbiologists know, counting bacterial colonies manually can be a monotonous and eye-straining task. [...]

Ready-to-use ‘Starved Cells’ for GPT of R2A agar

If your lab is following the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP), you will be familiar with the [...]

World Food Safety Day

The inaugural World Food Safety Day, which is June 7th 2019, is supported by the [...]