3M™ Petrifilm™ Rapid Yeast and Mold Count Plate features a new indicator technology that makes colonies easier to interpret. This sample-ready-culture-medium system provides results in as little as 48 hours of incubation time.Three Easy Steps Offer Fast, Easy-to-Interpret Results:*

1) Inoculate – 3M Petrifilm Aerobic Count Plates are easy to inoculate. Lift the top film and add sample.
2) Incubate – The space saving design minimizes incubator space requirements.
3) Interpret – Count the colonies.

*Refer to instructions for use for additional information, and more details on validations.

More Benefits with 3M Petrifilm Rapid Yeast and Mold Count Plates

Easy to use: Added foam barrier around the inoculation area makes inoculating the plates easier
Easy to interpret: Special technology keeps mold colonies from spreading and overlapping
Broad food performance: Can be used with both low and high water activity foods
Proven reliability: Versus DRBC, DG-18, acidified PDA and YGC agar methods
Labor saving: Eliminates the need for the labor intensive, multiple plate spread plate technique
Versatile: Can also be used for air, swab or surface contact environmental sampling
Fast Results: Provides results in as little as 48 hours of incubation time

The 3M Petrifilm Plate Advantage

In today’s environment of heightened focus on food safety and increasingly stringent quality requirements, labs are under pressure to provide tests that are fast, reliable and consistently accurate. 3M Petrifilm Plates have demonstrated consistent performance that has been cited globally with more than 200 certificates, recognitions, validations, and peer-review publications. For more than 30 years, food safety professionals around the world have put their trust in 3M Petrifilm Plates. That’s because 3M Petrifilm Plates have streamlined, standardized and simplified the process of microbial quantitative indicator testing, improving productivity and helping ensure the highest levels of product quality.

• Yeast and mold results in 48-60 hours.
• Plates are sample-ready, eliminating all the time-consuming steps of preparing media/agar dishes.
• Easy to use: Added foam barrier around the inoculation area makes inoculating the plates easier
• This plate has been awarded Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) #2014.05 for Select food and NF VALIDATION certificate: 3M™ 01/13-07/14 for All human food products, Pet food, Animal feed and Environmental products (primary production sample excepted) by AFNOR Certification.
• Companies worldwide trust 3M Petrifilm Plates to provide accurate, efficient, consistent results.