Easy Plate SA (Film medium for Staphylococcus aureus count)

Easy Plate SA is an AOAC PTM certified custom media formulation for cultivation of Staphylococcus aureus. A microbial test kit that contains a chromogenic substrate that produces easily distinguishable brightly colored blue colonies, allowing you to easily identify and quantify Staphylococcus aureus. Compared to Baired-Parker agar and Mannitol salt agar with egg yolk which takes 48 hrs, Easy Plate SA incubation time is reduced to in 24±1 hrs. Easy Plate SA also contain inhibitors reducing the growth of non- Staphylococcus aureus, but if they grow, the colonies will exhibit a pink to red-violet color making them easy to distinguish. Easy Plate SA is AOAC PTM certified and sold in packages of 100 tests in 4 separate bags containing 25 tests each. The shelf life of 12 months when stored unopened at 2-8℃.

Easy Plate is a convenient, prepared media plate with no need for media preparation or sterilization. Easy Plate is an easy to use alternative to in-house media preparation using traditional plated media that saves time, labor and reduces waste. Using an Easy Plate as a food microbiological test kit – which is about 1/20 volume of the traditional petri dish – saves space and allows you to run more tests with your current incubator space. Easy Plates come ready-to-use and immediately after opening the package you can place a sample suspension onto the media and start incubation.