NordVal 047 Compact Dry ETC

Method description

Compact Dry are ready-to-use dry media sheets for the determination of Enterococcus in a broad range of foods and in water products intended for human consumption.

Compact Dry are ready-to-use dry media sheets comprising culture medium and a cold soluble gelling agent, rehydrated by inoculating 1 ml of the pre-treated food sample into the centre of the self diffusible medium. The pre-treatment of food samples is carried out according to NMKL 91 or ISO 6887. For water samples, 100 ml or 250 ml are filtered and the membrane is incubated on the Compact Dry ETC. The Compact Dry ETC method contains chromogenic medium and selective agents for the detection and enumeration of Enterococci, which according to the manufacturer’s instructions appear as blue colonies after 24h incubation at 36 ± 1⁰C.

Producer

Shimadzu Diagnostics Corporation,
20th Floor Ueno Frontier Tower,
3-24-6 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo,
110-8736 JAPAN

Link to certificate

NordVal 047 Compact Dry ETC (pdf)

Expiring date

15.02.25

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