Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plate (Gel-type)

1. Product Overview

FSTest™ Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plate (Gel-type) is a pre-prepared disposable culture medium product engineered to revolutionize microbiological testing in the dairy and beverage industries. Designed specifically to meet the rigorous demands of quality control laboratories, this advanced diagnostic tool eliminates the cumbersome, time-consuming processes associated with traditional agar preparation. It provides a streamlined, highly efficient solution for the rapid enumeration of lactic acid bacteria, ensuring your probiotic products meet the highest standards of quality and regulatory compliance.

2. Key Benefits

• Fast Time-to-Result: Delivers definitive colony counts in just 24-48 hours.

• Ready-to-Use & Zero Media Prep: No glass Petri dishes, autoclaving, or agar preparation required—simply inoculate, incubate, and read.

• High Sensitivity & Accuracy: Detection limit as low as 1–10 CFU/mL (g), ensuring compliance with strict international food hygiene standards.

• Unambiguous Visual Reading: Highly specific chromogenic reaction produces vivid blue-green spots, with or without a yellow halo colonies, drastically reducing manual counting errors and false results.

• Space & Cost Efficiency: Ultra-thin paper-film format takes up minimal storage and incubator space, while significantly reducing biohazard disposal waste and shipping costs.

• Flexible Transport & Long Shelf Life: Stable at ambient temperatures (up to 15 days of room temperature shipping without cold chain reliance) with a 18-month shelf life under standard refrigeration.

3. Technical Specifications

4. Applicable Sample Types

Ideal for quality control, hygiene audits, and routine release testing across diverse sectors:

Dairy Products & Milk Bottled Water & Water Samples Meat & Poultry Seafood & Marine Products    Pet Food & Raw Materials Fruits & Vegetables Prepared & Processed Foods Nutraceuticals Bakery & Confectionery Surface & Environmental Swabs

5. Test Procedure

6. Performance & Validation

• Validation is based on β-galactosidase enzymatic activity and acid production, allowing positive colonies to grow as distinct blue-green spots (with or without a yellow halo) after 24-48 hours of incubation under specified aerobic or anaerobic conditions.