Hardy Diagnostics offers a fast and convenient way to monitor the microbial bioburden of the work surface of your Laminar Air Flow Workbench and/or glove fingertips of personnel who compound sterile preparations. Contact agar plates are simply pressed onto the surface or glove fingertips, incubated, and colonies are counted.
Tryptic Soy Agar with Lecithin and Tween®
15x60mm contact plate
Catalog Number - P34 | Price - $19.53 (10 plates)
Surface Sampling (TSA with Lecithin & Tween®)
Surface sampling is recommended but not required. Samples should be collected at least monthly for low- and medium-risk operations and at least weekly for high-risk level compounding operations.
1. Remove lid.
2. Gently press plate to surface without twisting or sliding.
3. Replace lid and incubate at 33ºC to 37ºC. After 48 hours, count the number of colonies.
Fingertip Sampling (TSA with Lecithin & Tween®)
Personnel monitoring (glove fingertips) is required to be performed weekly for low- and medium-risk operations and daily for high-risk level compounding operations.
1. Remove lid.
2. Gently press glove tips to plate surface.
3. Replace lid and incubate at 33ºC to 37ºC. After 48 hours, count the number of colonies.
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Catalog Number - 132000
Price - $479.70
True-Tempe ThermometersThese environmentally safe thermometers contain no dangerous mercury; instead they are filled with red spirit alcohol. For additional safety, they are encased in a Teflon® coating to prevent breakage. Range is 18°C to 50°C, with 0.5°C divisions. 135mm in height. The thermometer is sealed within a fluidfilled unbreakable bottle to prevent temperature reading fluctuations, due to the opening and closing of the incubator door. Attached magnet allows for adherence to the inside wall of the incubator.
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Price - $52.00
