Highlights

One of the unsolved environmental problems of the microbiology labs is the huge amount of Petri plates waste generation every day. Serial Dilution requires using an important number of Petri dishes, but is it possible to do otherwise if one wants to guarantee no...

Spiral Plating is a two-in-one method that enables dilution and plating at the same time. This is an official method of the APHA, the AOAC, and recognized by the FDA BAM (Chapter 3), which main benefit is the incredible gain of time and reduction of Petri plates waste...

If you work in a microbiology laboratory, whether in the field of environment, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and beverage, or personal care, your daily work will include colony counting. This can quickly become an exhausting task for microbiologists, as the counting...

Whether you are working for quality control in food, pharmaceutical, or cosmetic laboratory, the sample preparation can be tedious and inaccurate. That is why it is essential to have a dilutor for any microbiological laboratory. Gravimetric dilution, or liquid...

The need of using a homogenized solution is critical for laboratories as it is the representative sample of all the following processes. If the sample is solid or viscous and barely homogenous, it will not be possible to give all the information and will result in a...

iPeak® is IUL’s colorimetric rapid test reader that enhances the colors of your test. With IUL’s technology, you can export and print the results and send them in real-time. In this way, it is possible to integrate the results to your laboratory information system...

    Microbial air contamination monitoring is a key process in facilities with special air cleanliness needs. Air sampling is a regulated process that, with following simple steps, we can obtain an indicator of the quality of the air. Do you want to know how...

Making an analysis and quality control requires a flexible and user-friendly equipment in order to prepare samples efficiently. In this way, different methods have come up, such as laboratory mixers. These are suitable for intense mixing, dispersing, homogenizing,...

Microbiology, antibiotic, or tissues analysis among many other processes prove to be easier when the sample is liquid, with low viscosity and homogeneous. But what should we do when a solid, bland or with high viscosity sample need to be analyzed? The process can be...

With a paddle blender, you can obtain a sample perfectly representative of food, drug, cosmetics, or any specimen, due to its resistance and the use of sterile bags, which guarantee the sterilization of the sample during the whole homogenization process. The paddle...

ateral flow tests, also known as lateral flow immunochromatographic assays or rapid tests, are devices intended to detect the presence of a substance in a liquid sample without the need of any specialized equipment. A lateral flow test is easy to read, and do not...

Slide staining can be tedious, and guarantee the same standards in quality from the first to the last slide is challenging. To solve this, the automatization of the process can be a solution. However, slide stainers for hematology can be expensive and tricky to use....

To carry out an optimum microbial air sampling is critical to know all the legislation and procedures described in air sampling. Only in this way it is possible to protocolize the best microbial air sampling ever. Although it is true that sometimes FDA and EU GMP...

Commercially, the lateral flow device was launched in 1984 as a simple-based pregnancy test for home use. Now, it is becoming popular because of the recent unstoppable trend towards portable and wearable technology. This new movement drives the lateral flow strip...

Cytology is the microscopic examination of cells obtained from the body by aspiration or scraping for diagnostic purposes, such as cancer of the uterine cervix. The main advantage of this test is that the collection of cytological specimens does not require...