Speed and Accuracy for Food Safety： Boost Lab Performance with Ready-to-Use Media and Automated Colony Analysis

In today's food safety laboratories, efficiency and accuracy are critical, not only to meet regulatory standards but also to prevent costly foodborne illness outbreaks. This webinar introduces practical solutions to reduce media preparation time, minimize human error, and accelerate colony counting in microbiological testing. Whether you work in a food manufacturing QA/QC lab, a third-party testing lab, or a government inspection agency, this session will provide concrete strategies to streamline microbial testing without compromising reliability.

Introduction Summary

Contamination from bacteria, yeasts, and molds remains a leading cause of food product recalls and public health issues. Yet, many labs continue to use outdated or manual testing methods that are slow, labor-intensive, and prone to inconsistency.

This webinar introduces two key innovations:

• Easy Plate: A compact, pre-prepared media plate that eliminates the need for media prep and reduces incubation time
• Automated Colony Counters: AI-driven tools that enable accurate, consistent, and user-independent colony counting

Combined, these tools increase throughput, reduce workload, and help laboratories meet today’s demanding testing schedules with greater efficiency.

Key Topics

The Risk of Microbial Contamination 

Microorganisms in the production environment pose ongoing threats to consumer safety and brand reputation. Traditional agar plates require extensive prep work-media pouring, sterilization, incubation, and post-use autoclaving - which consume valuable time, space, and energy. 

Easy Plate for Simplified Testing

• No media preparation or sterilization needed 
• Incubation completed in just 24-48 hours (depending on sample type)
• Uses 1/20th the volume of a traditional petri dish 
• Minimal storage and waste; compact space is required to store and dispose of items of using the autoclave.

Environmentally Friendly Packaging 

Easy Plate is now packaged in a transparent barrier film instead of traditional aluminum bags. The switch reduces CO2 emissions and power consumption, supporting sustainability goals. 

Challenges in Reading Results- Solved with Automation

Colony appearance varies by media type, making interpretation difficult for non-experts. Automated colony counters, powered by AI, standardize and accelerate analysis, eliminating user bias and reducing interpretation time.