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 – 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 SA is an AOAC PTM certified custom media formulation for cultivation of Staphylococcus aureus. The media 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℃.
Features
1. Easily distinguishable brightly colored colonies at 24 hours
- Identification is easier compared to agar count media, since the color change makes it unnecessary to confirm the egg-yolk reaction.
- The incubation time is decreased by half to 24 hours, improving the time to report results.
- Only one sheet is required when using Easy Plate, while the surface plating method requires three or more plates.
2. High specificity
- Some S. aureus that exhibit negative egg yolk reactions on conventional agar media can be detected on Easy Plate.
- Many bacteria other than S. aureus are Inhibited by the selective media. Non-Staph aureus colonies that do develop, are easy to identify due to their pink to red-violet coloring.
3. High correlation with the plate count agar
High correlation with the plate count agar in various foods.※
※ According to the research by DNP
4.AOAC PTM certified
AOAC PTM Certification Acquired.（License No.111703）
Coloring
S. aureus colonies that develop will exhibit a blue coloring making them easy to identify and count. The SA Easy Plate media is inhibitory for other bacteria but, if they develop, they should exhibit a pink to red-violet coloring making discrimination easy.
Example
Strains
| Staphylococcus aureus （ATCC 25923） |
Staphylococcus aureus （NBRC 13276） |
Staphylococcus aureus （NBRC 100910） |
Staphylococcus aureus （D0152） |
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Foods
| Pasteurized milk + S. aureus | Cream puff + S. aureus | Cooked ham + S. aureus | Egg sandwich + S. aureus |
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Product Specification
| Product Name | Easy Plate SA |
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| Product Code | 61976 |
| Object microorganism | Staphylococcus aureus |
| Incubation Times | 24 ± 1 hours |
| Incubation Temperature | 35 or 37 ± 1℃ |
| Storage Condition (Unopened) | 2 - 8℃ |
| (After opening) | After opening the package, fold the open end of the package at least 2 times and tape it. Store in a refrigerator (2 to 8°C) and use within 3 months. |
| Shelf life | 12 months after manufacturing date |
| Certification/Regulation | AOAC RI PTM Certification Acquired. |
| Packaging | 100 tests (25 tests x 4 bags) |