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Thermo Scientific Microbiology

Discover Thermo Scientific solutions for detecting bacterial contamination in pharmaceuticals and food products, from raw materials to the finished goods. 

Supporting Safe Manufacturing of Food and Pharmaceutical Products

Find Thermo Scientific™ industrial microbiology testing essentials that support the manufacturing of safe pharmaceuticals and food products. Count on these complete, market-leading solutions to detect microbes in your environment, raw materials, intermediates, and finished products.


Pharma and Biopharma Applications

Thermo Scientific™ microbiology products for pharma and biopharma applications are designed to address the unique needs of these industries. They deliver a range of validated solutions for the pharmaceutical microbiology laboratory, supporting the production and quality assurance of sterile pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and biotechnology products.

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Environmental Monitoring

Meet your environmental monitoring needs with sealed, sterile, and secure Thermo Scientific™ Triple Wrap Tryptone Soya Agar Plates. Pharmacopoeia-compliant, they are available in both 60mm contact and 85mm settling plates.

  • Feel confident in your results: The unique combination of features enhances media quality and protection
  • Achieve full traceability: Includes 2D (GS1-matrix) barcoding for sampling accuracy
  • Improve efficiency: Reduce time spent on incoming goods controls with large-volume single lots
  • Enhanced sustainability: Packaged sustainably with zero styrofoam to support your facility's green initiatives

Triple Wrap Plates

Sterility Testing

Find high-performance media in a wide variety of formats and a broad range of volumes, from 20mL to 1,000mL, to meet your sterility testing needs.

  • Quality components: Manufactured with premium raw materials and filled in ISO-5 cleanroom suites
  • Extensive range: Complete USP/EP formulated media for sterility workflows; single-lot orders available

Prepared Microbiology Media

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Microbial Limits Testing and Quality Control

Browse a comprehensive range of dehydrated and ready-to-use media and quality control organisms to support testing from raw materials to finished goods.

  • Globally harmonized: Aligned to USP/EP/JP formulations and QC releases per compendial methods
  • Media for all specified organisms: Bile-tolerant, Gram-negative bacteria, aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, molds, and fungi
  • Complete and robust: ISO 17034-accredited quality control microorganisms for confident growth promotion testing

Dehydrated Microbiology Media

General Microbiology Quality Control Products

Prepared Microbiology Media

Aseptic Processing

Enable positive outcomes by using a sterile growth medium as your placebo. Reduce burden and stay in control of aseptic manufacturing processes using compliant, validated Thermo Scientific™ Cold Filterable Media.

  • Pharmacopoeia (USP/EP) harmonized
  • BSE and mycoplasma free
  • Gamma-irradiated for sterility assurance
  • Animal Origin (AO) and Animal Origin-Free (AOF) formulations
  • Dehydrated Culture Media (DCM) and Bioprocess Container (BPC) formats

Cold-Filterable Dehydrated Culture Media

Cold-Filterable Bioprocess Media


Food and Beverage Applications

Explore microbiology solutions that bring together the best in food quality and safety testing. These include market-leading molecular instrumentation and PCR technology for foodborne pathogen and quality indicator detection, as well as traditional culture media and biochemical or immunological tests.

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Enrichment Media and Sample Preparation

Bring simplicity and accuracy to your laboratory with flexible Thermo Scientific™ Oxoid™ enrichment media formats combined with sample dilutors and homogenizers.

  • Work more efficiently: Prepare media in a matter of minutes
  • Eliminate steps: No need for weighing and autoclaving
  • Protect your environment: Save storage space and reduce waste
  • Reinvent the process: Dilute samples quickly and accurately at the touch of a button

Enrichment Media

Sample Handling

Rapid Detection with PCR

Detect common food pathogens rapidly and accurately with the Thermo Scientific™ SureTect™ Real-Time PCR System. This system offers an easy-to-use workflow and provides results in 8 to 26 hours—depending on the target and test matrix—which is 3 to 6 days faster than traditional culture-based methods. SureTect is ISO and AOAC certified/validated for a wide range of food matrices.

  • Easy handling: Ready-to-use reagents and ergonomically designed tools
  • Stay on track: Color-coded plates and reagents
  • Simplify your workflow: Analyze for multiple pathogens simultaneously
  • Smart instrumentation: Automate your lysis, test setup, and result interpretation

PCR Assays

PCR System Instrumentation

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Rapid Detection with Chromogenic Media

Simplify detection, enumeration, and identification of Salmonella, Listeria, and Cronobacter species with Thermo Scientific™ Precis™ Methods that enable rapid, culture-based workflows.

  • Minimize handling: Single overnight enrichment
  • Reduce costs: Single chromogenic plate medium
  • Improve efficiency: Simple rapid confirmation and identification options
  • Maintain consistency: Harmonized workflow for all Precis methods

Cronobacter Precis Method

Salmonella Precis Method

Listeria Precis Method

Confirmation, Identification, and Quality Control

Find accurate, simple, rapid, and convenient solutions to suit your, immunological, or molecular identification needs. Save time and reduce the risk of infection and contamination during QC testing with Thermo Scientific™ Culti-Loops™ Direct-Streak Inoculating Loops.

These ready-to-use, gel-preserved microorganisms do not require rehydration or organism handling and give you confidence, with complete traceability of ATCC™* Licensed Derivative and NCTC cultures.

Quality Control Organisms

Biochemical Tests

Molecular Tests

*The ATCC Licensed Derivative™ Emblem, the ATCC Licensed Derivative™ word mark, and the ATCC catalog marks are trademarks of ATCC. Remel Inc. is licensed to use these trademarks and to sell products derived from ATCC™ cultures. The identity, purity, and authenticity of the Licensed Products are exclusively the responsibility of Remel Inc. and not ATCC.

Popular Resources

Triple Wrap Plates Introduction Video

Find out how Thermo Scientific™ Triple Wrap Plates for Environmental Monitoring provide greater assurance for your sterile products.

Quanti-Cult Kits Demonstration Video

Learn how Thermo Scientific™ Quanti-Cult Plus™ kits can provide certainty in the quality control of your pharmaceutical microbiology processes.

ThermoFisher Scientific SureTect Introduction Video

Learn how to simplify your food pathogen testing workflow and get faster results.

Listeria Precis Introduction Video

Discover the next generation in culture media-based testing and simplify your workflow.



Resources

Pharma Bottled Media Brochure

Explore Thermo Scientific Bottled Media varieties designed to support the growth of a wide range of bacteria, yeasts, and molds.

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Sealed, Sterile, Secure

Sealed, Sterile, Secure. For compliance without compromise.

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Listeria Precis Methods Brochure

See how Thermo Scientific™ Listeria Precis™ Methods reinvent the standard for culture-based Listeria testing.

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Validated Detection and Identification of Cronobacter Species in 3 Days

Thermo Scientific™ Cronobacter Precis™ Methods.

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Cronobacter Precis Methods Brochure

See how Thermo Scientific™ Cronobacter Precis™ Methods reinvent the standard for culture-based Cronobacter testing.
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Validated Detection and Identification of Salmonella Species in 2 Days

Thermo Scientific™ Salmonella Precis™ Methods.

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Salmonella Precis Methods Brochure

See how Thermo Scientific™ Salmonella Precis™ Methods reinvent the standard for culture-based Salmonella testing.

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Food Pathogen Testing

Learn how to simplify your food pathogen testing with the Thermo Scientific™ SureTect PCR system.

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Isolation, Enumeration, and Identification of Listeria Species and Listeria Monocytogenes in 2 Days

Thermo Scientific™ Listeria Precis™ Methods.

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Triple Wrap Plates Brochure

Discover pharmacopoeia-compliant Thermo Scientific™ Triple Wrap Plates that are designed to support your most sterile environments.
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SmartNote: Growth Promotion Testing for Pharmaceutical Biology

Food pathogen testing.

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Pharma Quality Control Organisms Brochure

Find out how to gain confidence in your growth promotion with Thermo Scientific™ Quanti-Cult Plus™ Quantitative Quality Control Microorganism Kits.

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Standard-Setting Quality without Compromising Your Safety

Thermo Scientific™ Quanti-Cult Plus™ Quantitative Quality Control Microorganisms.

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Thermo Scientific Precis Methods

More precise foodborne pathogen detection and enumeration with next generation culture media.

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TaqMan Environmental Master Mix 2.0

Accurate, real-time PCR-based pathogen detection in the presence of high levels of inhibitors.

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