3M™ Petrifilm™ Coliform Count Plates

Coliform results in 24 hours

3M™ Petrifilm™ Coliform Count Plates provide a cost-effective, convenient and reliable method for testing equipment, raw materials, food products and manufacturing environmental samples.

The 3M Petrifilm Coliform Count Plate is a sample-ready-culture-medium system which 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.

These plates provide total coliform count information with confirmed results in just 24 hours. By eliminating subsequent confirmation steps required with most traditional reference methods, the 3M Petrifilm Coliform Count Plates can help increase productivity and reduce overall lab costs.

The 3M 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. 3M Petrifilm Plates have demonstrated consistent performance that has been cited globally with more than 200 certificates, recognitions, validations, and peer-review publications. For more than 30 years, food safety professionals around the world have put their trust in 3M Petrifilm Plates. That’s because 3M Petrifilm Plates have streamlined, standardized and simplified the process of microbial quantitative indicator testing, improving productivity and helping ensure the highest levels of product quality.

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Benefits

Benefits

Coliform results in 24 hours.
Plates are sample-ready, eliminating the time-consuming, cumbersome step of preparing media/agar dishes
Can be used with the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate Reader for consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results.
This plate has been awarded Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #986.33 for Milk, OMA #989.10 for dairy products and OMA #991.14 for Food NF VALIDATION certificates: 3M 01/02-09/89 A for all human food products (except raw shelffish), Pet Food and Environmental samples, 3M 01/02-09/89 B for all human food products (except raw shelffish), and 3M 01/02-09/89 C for all human food products by AFNOR Certification.
Food processors and Contract labs worldwide trust 3M Petrifilm Plates to provide accurate, efficient, consistent results.

Specifications

Specifications


Approved Environmental Marketing Claim (EMC)	3M Petrifilm Plates provide a significantly more sustainable alternative to traditional agar tests for quantitative microbial indicator testing of food and beverages. Reducing: 66% Waste 75% Greenhouse Gas Emissions 76% Energy Use 79% Water
Brand	Petrifilm™
Quantity	1000 plates/case, 50 plates/box
Manufacturing Segment	Environmental Monitoring, Packaging & Storage Testing, Post-Chill, Pre-Chill, Raw Milk Reception, Ready-to-cook
Recommended Industry	Bakery, Beverage & Bottled Water, Confectionary, Dairy, Eggs, Fruits & Vegetables, Grain & Oilseed Milling Sector, Meat, Nutraceuticals, Nuts, Pet Food & Animal Feed, Poultry, Seafood
Storage Temperature	Store at temperatures less than or equal to 8°C.
Test Type	Environmental Test

Steps to Result

Steps to Result

Three Easy Steps Offer Fast, Easy-to-Interpret Results:*

1. Inoculate
3M Petrifilm Coliform Count Plates are easy to inoculate. Lift the top film and add sample.

2. Incubate
The space saving design minimizes incubator space requirements.

3. Interpret**
Count the colonies. Confirmed coliforms are red colonies with associated gas bubbles. Results are fast and accurate.

*Refer to instructions for use for additional information, and more details on validations.

**AOAC OMA #986.33 and #989.10

The 3M Petrifilm Coliform Count Plate can also be read using the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate Reader which provides consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results of 3M Petrifilm Plates (Aerobic Count, Rapid Aerobic Count, Coliform Count, E. coli/Coliform Count, Enterobacteriaceae Count and Select E. coli Count ) in 4 seconds.