Dehydrated and Ready-To-Use Culture Media

When it comes to developing innovative culture media for microbiological applications, Merck clearly sets the standard with its over 120 years of cumulative expertise. As a worldwide leader in this field, we offer state-of-the-art, turnkey solutions in a comprehensive approach to meet the needs of customers in the food and beverages industries. Our portfolio of dehydrated and ready-to-use culture media spans more than 300 formulations, many of which were purpose-developed for culturing a narrow range of microorganisms or individual species, and we are constantly expanding this range.

Dehydrated Culture Media in Low-Dust Granules Format

• Easier and faster media preparation
• Less airborne toxic and allergenic dust prevent contamination of workspace
• Meet highest industry performance standards

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Ready-To-Use Culture Media

• Require no additional preparation steps
• Save you time and money
• Include lot-specific certificates of analyses

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NEW GranuCult™, ReadyPlate™ & ReadyTube™ Culture Media
Your Head Start in Traditional Microbial Testing

GranuCult™, ReadyPlate™ and ReadyTube™ are the new brand names for our existing granulated and ready-to-use culture media which comply with the new EN ISO 11133:2014 standards as well as other ISO standards and FDA-BAM/USDA-FSIS methods for testing food and water samples.

They provide both the composition and the QC specification parameter to comply with new EN ISO 11133:2014 and make staying compliant easy.

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