Easygel® Agar Replacement Media

• No mixing
• No autoclaving
• No condensation
• For food, beverage, dairy and water professionals

Easygel® is a pectin-gel method, which comes as a sterile 2-part test unit consisting of a bottle of liquid medium and a petri dish that is pretreated with a special formulation. When the bottle of liquid medium is poured into the pretreated dish, ions diffuse from the pretreatment layer into the liquid, causing it to gel. Complete gelling takes approximately 40 minutes. The result is an instant, hassle-free prepared petri dish.
Adding inoculum is done by a variety of simple methods (pour plate, streak plate). With Easygel®, you spend less time preparing and more time testing.

Coliscan® Easygel media incorporate a patented combination of colour-producing chemicals and nutrients that mark coliforms and E. coli in differing colours for easy identification and isolation. This means that when a test sample of water or other material is added to the medium, coliform bacteria will grow as pink-magenta colonies while E. coli will grow as purple-blue colonies. Other bacterial types will generally grow as non-coloured colonies.

Coliscan® Easygel is ideal when a sample size of 1-5 ml is appropriate, such as the testing of river water or other samples where there is generally a sizable population of coliforms and/or E. coli. The sample can be added directly into the bottle of Coliscan® Easygel, swirled, poured into a pretreated petri dish and incubated. Incubation temperature is not critical, and under warm conditions (32-37°C) the results can be read in
24-28 hours.

Coliscan® MF is for use with membrane filters, and it allows the use of much larger test samples of any filterable liquid. This method is commonly used with potable water or treated wastewater that contains a low level of coliforms or E. coli. Coliscan MF contains the same patented combination of colour-producing chemicals and nutirents as Coliscan Easygel. The kit includes: 2 Coliscan MF 20 ml bottles, 20 membrane filters (47 mm), 20 dishes with pads (50 mm), 20 3 ml droppers, 5 filter unit pads, 1 filter apparatus and 1 syringe with hose (vacuum device).

Coliscan® MF Consumables kit includes: 2 Coliscan MF 20 ml bottles, 20 membrane filters (47 mm), 20 dishes with pads (50 mm), 20 3 ml droppers, 5 filter unit pads.