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.

Easy Plate AC is an AOAC PTM certified custom media formulation for cultivation of aerobic bacteria. A microbial test kit that contains a chemical indicator that provides easily distinguishable colored red colonies, allowing you to easily identify and count aerobic bacteria in 48±2 hours. Easy Plate AC is AOAC PTM certified and sold in packages of 100 tests in 4 separate bags containing 25 tests each. The shelf life of 18 months when stored unopened at 2-8℃.

1.  Count any colonies that spread as single colony, counting by the central dark area of the colony.
   *Do not count thin, microscopic colonies scattered across an area where a colony is spread out.
2. Where multiple colonies are present, count the central dark area of the colony as a single colony. In example B, there are 4 dark area of the colony. This would be counted 4 colonies.