Culture Media BACT/ALERT® BPN Anaerobic Platelet Bottle

Features

• BACT/ALERT® BPN culture bottles are used with the BACT/ALERT® Microbial Detection Systems for quality control testing of leukocyte reduced apheresis platelet (LRAP) units and both leukocyte reduced single and a pool of up to six (6) units of leukocyte reduced whole blood platelet concentrates (LRWBPC); 1
• 2 BACT/ALERT BPN culture bottles support the growth of anaerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms (bacteria) BACT/ALERT® BPN (color-coded purple) - BACT/ALERT BPN disposable culture bottles contain 40 ml of media and an internal sensor that detects carbon dioxide as an indicator of microbial growth The media formulation consists of pancreatic digest of casein (1.36% w/v)
• papaic digest of soybean meal (0.24% w/v)
• sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) (0.035% w/v)
• menadione (0.00005% w/v)
• hemin (0.0005% w/v)
• yeast extract (0.376% w/v)
• pyridoxine hydrochloride (0.0008% w/v)
• pyruvic acid (sodium salt
• 0.08% w/v)
• reducing agents
• and other complex amino acid and carbohydrate substrates in purified water