Both systems are packed with bags and CO 2 tablets. The base has inward-sloping walls and a convex bottom designed to keep the agar bed in place during transit and use. These sterile pack plates are useful for monitoring surfaces in clean rooms and other environmentally-controlled areas. In your gowning room, just open the package, remove and discard the outer bag. After passing through the clean area, remove and discard inner bag.
Plates are completely sterile and ready to use.
The sterilization process makes it unnecessary to incubate the plates for sterility confirmation prior to use. For your convenience a third bag is included for transport of the plates from the clean area to the testing laboratory. In addition, a QC certificate is available for each package. On receipt store plates at 2 to 8 C. Media containing dyes must be protected from light at all times. Plates are supplied in packages of five, eight, ten, twenty or twenty-four and cartons of one hundred.