Prepared Media HardyCHROM™ E. Coli / Coliform Petri Plate Format

Features

• HardyCHROM™ ECC is a chromogenic media recommended for the detection
• differentiation
• and enumeration of Escherichia coli and other coliforms in food
• water
• or environmental samples based on colony color E. coli can be identified as pink to violet colored colonies on the plate; other coliform bacteria will appear as turquoise colonies Organisms other than coliforms or E. coli (including approximately 4% of E. coli strains and most O157 strains) will appear as white or colorless colonies Selective agents have been added to inhibit the growth of gram-positive and other non-coliform bacteria Each contact plate has a specified grid molded into the bottom of the plate for enumeration of microbial colonies growing on a variety of surfaces