3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Aerobic Count (RAC) Plates

3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Aerobic Count Plates are the go-to indicator test for measuring the microorganism levels in food and food production areas and helps companies ensure quality and reduce food spoilage. So getting fast, accurate counts is critical for making time-sensitive decisions.

• Quicker quality control decision-making and corrective action
• Raw material release decisions
• Environmental cleaning and production decisions
• Product release decisions

Recommended Industry for Rapid Aerobic Count Plates: Bakery, Beverage & Bottled Water, Chemicals, Confectionary, Dairy, Eggs, Fruits & Vegetables, Grain & Oilseed Milling Sector, Meat, Nutraceuticals, Nuts, Pet Food & Animal Feed, Poultry, Prepared & Processed Foods, Seafood

3M Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plates are fast, accurate, sample-ready culture medium systems. They contain nutrients, a cold-water-soluble gelling agent, and a dual-sensing indicator technology that allows you to easily count colonies in just 24 hours for most food matrices. Faster results and less labour mean more time and resources for monitoring your processes, ensuring tighter process control and improving product quality.

Benefits

• Provides results in 24 hours (excluding dairy powders) of incubation time.
• Helps prevent costly retesting and delayed results often caused by spreader colonies.
• Proven as reliable as the SMA plate method.
• Plates are sample-ready, eliminating the time-consuming, cumbersome step of preparing media/agar dishes.
• Can be used with the 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader for consistent, fast, automated reading and recording of results.
• Available in packs of 50 or 500 Plates

Method: AOAC Official Method of Analysis

• Dairy (Not Including Powders) and Seafood: 24h - ± 2h at 32℃ - ± 1℃
• All Other Foods: 24h - ± 2h at 35℃ - ± 1℃
• Dairy Powders Including Whey Powders: 48h - ± 3h at 32℃ - ± 1℃

NF Validation by AFNOR Certification

• Non-Powdered Dairy Products: 28h - ± 2h at 30℃ - ± 1℃
• Powdered Milk: 48h - ± 3h at 30℃ - ± 1℃

Incubation: Stacks of 40 or less (SMEDP: 20 or less)

Optimum pH Range: >5.0

Recommended Counting Range: 

Counting Area: 30cm2

Spreader Type: 3M™ Petrifilm™ Flat Spreader

The innovative 3M Petrifilm Count Plates range offers a fast, easy to use, reliable and accurate disposable microbiological counting system. Petrifilm count plates are designed to improve testing efficiency and reduce operational costs versus traditional methods, helping contract and in-house laboratories increase productivity and profitability.