Prepared Culture Media

Save time and labor with prepared media

Whether you are making 100mL or 100L, the same steps apply to media preparation. Eliminate many of these, from weighing out and autoclaving, to tempering, pouring or dispensing using ready-prepared media and convenience formats. Let us help you save time and labor.

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Chromogenic media

Chromogenic media samples available

To experience the superior quality of our chromogenic media you are invited to trial a sample pack today. Choose from our chromogenic media that detect a range of important pathogens from water, food and clinical samples.

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Prepared media selection guide

Download the prepared media guide and discover our wide range of prepared media we have on offer. With thousands of quality assured formulations and formats available, you're sure to find what you're looking for whether it's routine, specialty, or a custom blend somewhere in between.

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Prepared media selection guide

Prepared culture media categories

Prepared bottled media is used in both clinical and industrial microbiology settings. Browse our complete selection right here to find a wide variety of fill volumes, bottle sizes, caps, and containers to suit your need.

Media fills play a critical role in validating aseptic manufacturing processes. Reduce the burden of media fills with ready-to-use culture media in BioProcess containers with plug and play connectors for easy integration.

Detect microbial contamination or determine bacterial counts in clinical specimens with easy-to-use, easy-to-read dip slides. Make colony counting easier when lab facilities are limited, and decrease the time between collection and inoculation to increase recovery and accuracy.

Detect, presumptively identify, and screen samples for pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms with speed and accuracy using chromogenic media. Colourful, easy-to-read colonies and short incubation times enable timely and important decision-making for both clinical and food testing laboratories.

When conditions call for a tube, we've got it. When delicate aerobic or anaerobic conditions are called for or when you're looking to isolate and study a specific reaction, a tube of one of the world's favorite brands of prepared media is right here ready for you.

Isolate, identify, differentiate, and perform susceptibility testing on plated media from the experts in microbiological media. With thousands of quality assured formulations and formats available, you're sure to find what you're looking for whether it's routine, specialty, or a custom blend somewhere in between.

Whether you're processing clinical, environmental or manufacturing samples, it's always best to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can. That's why we bring together some of the most widely used, high-performing culture media formulations and put them on a single plate. Our goal is to help you do more, learn more and grow more with less.

Have confidence in your cleanroom or isolator by minimizing risk with our contact and settle plates. With a variety of formulations to choose from, in both irradiated and non-irradiated formats, finding what you need to monitor and control your environment can begin right here.

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Experience the local culture

Our prepared media plates, bottles, and tubes are produced in Australia at our Adelaide manufacturing facility, following our commitment to produce our products as close as practical to our customers.

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Food Microbiology Testing

Access a more complete solution for your microbiological food testing workflow

Have confidence in solutions that bring together the best in food quality and safety testing, and help you remain adaptive, responsive and competitive.

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Clinical Microbiology

Streamline your clinical microbiology workflow with solutions at every step

Identify infections and antimicrobial susceptibility quickly and accurately to guide optimal patient care with powerful manual and automated technologies, and a comprehensive line of media.

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