Accurately dispense broth medium into suitable containers for food testing using the Thermo Scientific™ DiluFlux™ Pro Automated Gravimetric Dilutor. DiluFlux Pro Dilutors are compact, easy-to-use, and designed to deliver precise quantities of diluents rapidly with the touch of a button, so that you can work more confidently and accurately. When combined with the Thermo Scientific™ Peristaltic Pump and Thermo Scientific™ Homogenizer, your lab bench will be equipped with a flexible automated culture media solution to increase your productivity. Automate the dilution step of your Thermo Scientific™ Dry-Bags™ Enrichment Media, as well as other formats, for maximum efficiency. The easy-to-use DiluFlux Pro Gravimetric Dilutors allow the simultaneous use of two diluents by having dual dispensing heads that are fed by dual peristaltic pumps mounted into the unit.

Dry-Bags Enrichment Media greatly reduce the time and labor involved in preparing large volumes of media and diluents. With no handling of glassware or weighing of culture media required, your lab can run more safely and efficiently. And to reduce the burden of QC testing, quality certificates are available for every batch so that you can work confidently.

Save time in preparing bulk media and diluents for food microbiology testing using Thermo Scientific™ Dry-Bags™ Buffered Peptone Water (ISO). The irradiated media is supplied in lightweight, transparent plastic bags — just add water and the medium is ready for use. Each bag makes 20L of medium, which can be dispensed through the outlet tube.

Save storage space and preparation time with pre-weighed, ready-to-rehydrate Thermo Scientific™ FitBag™ Enrichment Media. Prepare when convenient: just fill with deionized water, break the seal and mix, for media that’s ready to dispense in under 10 minutes. Reduce waste and increase your confidence of quality with a rehydrated, in use shelf-life of 10 days and certification provided by an ISO/IEC17025 accredited QC laboratory.

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a broad selection of high-quality culture media for food and water applications. Our base culture media, supplements and ready-prepared plates and convenience format media are tested for quality and performance before, during, and after manufacturing to make sure the finished product meets the food microbiology laboratory’s testing needs.

Get ready for maximum productivity. When combined with the Thermo Scientific Peristaltic Pump and Thermo Scientific™ Diluflux™ Automated Gravimetric Dilutor, the Homogenizer Laboratory Blender will equip your laboratory bench with a highly flexible, automated sample enrichment and preparation solution.

Remel™ and Oxoid™ products are now part of the Thermo Scientific brand, combining powerful manual, semi-automated and fully automated test products and a comprehensive line of media and diagnostic products to offer a complete, end-to-end solution to quickly deliver the products you need and the quality results your laboratory depends on.

The MicroSEQ® ID microbial identification system, based on comparative rDNA sequencing of the 16S region (for bacteria) or the LSU D2 region (for fungi), is a proven method for rapid and accurate microbial identification. The optimized design, integrated workflow, and superior accuracy of the MicroSEQ® ID Rapid System enable top pharmaceutical companies, medical devices companies, public health laboratories, and government agencies worldwide to reliably perform a wide range of microbial identification tasks, including routine QC microbiology tests.

 

Fast, Confident PCR Pathogen Detection To Help Protect Your Business’s Brand

Detect foodborne pathogens, and other important food safety and quality targets, quickly and accurately. Empower your operations with rapid reporting to enable faster product release and interventions. Our food safety PCR assays offer qualitative detection of the major pathogens (Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli O157:H7, Cronobacter spp.) and other important targets in food and environmental samples. These PCR food testing solutions are optimized, and in many cases externally validated, for use with our Applied Biosystems™ QuantStudio™ 5 Food Safety Real-Time PCR Instrument on a broad range of food and environmental matrices.

Simplify Your Workflow With Pre-Weigh Dehydrated Culture Media

Growing pressures from higher test volumes and demands for faster time to results call for solutions that maximize efficiency without compromising the quality of your outputs. Streamline your workflow today with our convenient “Rip and Tip” Thermo Scientific™ Pre-Weigh Dehydrated Culture Media (DCM) pouches, available in 1L and 8L sizes that help you maximize productivity while reducing costs.

Capped and Bottled Quality and Safety Control From the Experts in Media

Prepared bottled media is a convenient tool in both clinical and industrial microbiology settings. That’s exactly why we offer customers a wide variety of fill volumes, bottle sizes, caps, and containers to suit your need – because one size does not fit all.

To facilitate operational efficiency in food microbiology laboratories, a new range of bagged enrichment media is designed to reduce hands-on preparation time.

The bags contain pre-weighed, ready-to-hydrate, gamma-irradiated enrichment media which eliminates the need for further sterilization. The new Bagged Media are available in a choice of formats and volumes to meet a variety of sample preparation and testing volume needs.

For added convenience and to further reduce risk of contamination, the Thermo Scientific QuickBag Enrichment Media are supplied with water pre-filled. All that is required for preparation is to break the dividing seal and mix.

“The QuickBag and FitBag Media Formats are a response to customers who already appreciate the benefits of our large volume Thermo Scientific Dry-Bags Enrichment Media,” says Mark Truesdale, senior director, food safety solutions, microbiology, Thermo Fisher Scientific. “By offering these convenient formats in lower volumes, food microbiology laboratories of all sizes can avoid the time-consuming weighing and autoclaving steps, and alleviate the bottlenecks associated with traditional media preparation.”

The QuickBag and FitBag Media Formats are available in a choice of volumes: 2.7, 4.5 and 9 liters.

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a broad selection of high-quality culture media for food and water applications. Our base culture media, supplements and ready-prepared plates and convenience format media are tested for quality and performance before, during, and after manufacturing to make sure the finished product meets the food microbiology laboratory’s testing needs.

SureTect System is designed to quickly and accurately detect foodborne pathogens in a broad range of foods and associated samples. Take advantage of simple and streamlined workflows that utilize a single same-day or overnight enrichment step, direct lysis protocol for DNA release, and universal cycling parameters.

 

Key Features

• Efficient: process several hundred samples a day – over 700 tests in an 8h shift
• Simple: ‘plug and play’ ready to use out of the box
• Flexible: an open platform suitable for running our full range of PCR solutions for food safety, authenticity, and quality testing, as well as various applications including agribusiness and research use.
• Cloud-enabled: offering data sharing, analysis and trending

The RapidFinder™ STEC Detection Workflow is a complete, validated screening and confirmation system for E. coli O157:H7 and the six non-O157 STEC (Shiga toxigenic E. coli).

The Applied Biosystems™ RapidFinder™ STEC Detection Workflow enables screening for E. coli O157:H7 and six strains of Shiga toxigenic E. coli—the Big 6 STECs—in as few as 12 hours, providing a rapid, validated workflow for STEC detection in raw ground beef and raw beef trim.

The RapidFinder STEC Detection Workflow is a two-stage real-time PCR method, designed to accurately detect and confirm the presence of E. coli O157:H7 and the ‘Big 6’ serogroups of non-O157 STEC (serogroups O26, O45, O103, O111, O121 & O145), defined by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) as adulterants in the American beef industry.

Thermo Scientific™ Revco™ RDE Series -40°C ultra-low temperature freezers, powered by H-drive, feature three upright models, maximizing storage capacity from 40,000 up to 60,000 2mL vials. The RDE Series is a sustainable and reliable solution with ultimate sample security and operational savings for every lab.

Part of the Standard Performance (STP) family, Thermo Scientific™ Revco™ RDE Series ultra-low temperature freezers, powered by H-drive, feature four upright models, maximizing storage capacity from 30,000 up to 60,000 2mL vials. The RDE Series is a sustainable and reliable solution with ultimate sample security and operational savings for every lab.

Testing Machines Inc., is globally recognized as the leading supplier of coefficient of friction instrumentation. Our NEW 32-76e coefficient of friction/peel tester uses advanced digital force signaling and high-speed data acquisition software to provide unmatched precision and repeatability in COF and peel testing.

Improved features include a color touchscreen display and intuitive software user interface for easy navigation and test method storage.

New peel testing capabilities include 180° peel and T-peel measurements.

Microprocessor control and operator-friendly software makes the 17-76 simple to operate. A new Servo motor design provides closed loop feedback for accurate and repeatable position control.  Ergonomic control layout maximizes the testing sequence while minimizing sample testing errors resulting in incorrect data.  The instrument meets or exceeds all international testing standards for accuracy, precision, and parallelism.

System software includes 8 corrugated test methods for quick access including: RCT, CCT, ECT, CMT, FCT, PAT, CLT and SQT- score test which calculates score ratio of scored verses unscored samples.  Test methods can be created by the operator and stored for future reference to simplify test set up. Other compression methods include peak force, peak height and stack load.

The Digital Ink Rub Tester uses the Sutherland-method and is designed to measure scuffing or ink rub resistance. Several tests can be performed including dry rub (the amount of transfer ink from one dry surface to another), wet rub (the amount of transfer of ink from wetted surface to another), wet bleed or transfer (ink transfer to a water-saturated blotter), wet smear (similar to wet bleed with the addition or rub cycles), functional rub/wet rub (smear or transfer tests using a liquid other than water and hot abrasion). An optional heated weight provides the 10-20 Rub Resistance Tester with a uniform test for evaluating hot abrasion resistance of printed materials like fabric, plastics.

An automatic, digital tear tester equipped with an optical encoder for measuring the angular position of the pendulum during tearing and converting this measurement to tear strength units. A large, full-color touchscreen display with intuitive, easy-to-use software provides a revolutionary new approach to testing and data review.

The Internal Bond™ Tester is designed to determine the internal bond strength of a variety of Paper and Board materials according to TAPPI T 569 and ISO 16260. The instrument design is based on a falling pendulum which creates a high speed impact on a paper specimen. The paper specimen is sandwiched between two double-coated tape substrates. The pendulum impact measures the total energy required to delaminate the internal fibers of a specimen in a “Z” type direction into two plies.

An automatic sample preparation station (Model 80-30) is available which allows five specimens to be accurately pressed and cut simultaneously. The prep station includes a safety enclosure over the cutting blades, eliminating the use of box cutting knives to separate the individual test specimens.

The Liberty16 is your personal qPCR machine. Run your samples without waiting, using a beautiful device that sits neatly on your bench.

It even has a robust, stylish aluminum casing which makes it standout wherever you are.

It doesn’t even need a laptop to run. Download the powerful Ubiquitome iPhone app from the App Store. It allows you to set up your run, view the run in progress, call Cq’s dynamically and even upload your data to share in the cloud.

The United Model LCH Speedy Tester is a portable, hydraulic testing machine incorporating a highly accurate, built-in digital information system for the display of test data.

The “Speedy” is ideal for testing applications where putting expensive lab or R&D equipment on the factory floor may not be feasible.

United’s DFM-150kN test frame is ideal for testing samples up to 150 kN. (33,700 lbf.). From basic tension and compression testing to advanced materials testing the DFM-150kN is a versatile test system used across virtually all industries.

Floor model systems are designed to sit on lab or production floors due to their increased size and weight. We offer both servo-electric floor model systems and servo-hydraulic floor model systems. For information on our servo-hydraulic systems, please return to the product menu and select one of the DHFM systems.

United’s DFM-600kN test frame is ideal for testing samples up to 600 kN. (134,800 lbf.). From basic tension and compression testing to advanced materials testing the DFM-600kN is a versatile test system used across virtually all industries.

Floor model systems are designed to sit on lab or production floors due to their increased size and weight. We offer both servo-electric floor model systems and servo-hydraulic floor model systems. For information on our servo-hydraulic systems, please return to the product menu and select one of the DHFM systems.

United servo-hydraulic controlled DHFM Series Test Systems are available in capacities from 300 kN. to 2,000 kN.

The fully-accessorized DHFM Series Testers include a complement of support hardware and accessories to immediately commence testing for tensile or compressive strength as well as bend and flex testing. By incorporating proven hardware plus USB-connectivity for high speed data acquisition and control, the SHFM Series takes full advantage of our extensive library of Windows®-based test methods. These test methods generate test results that are fully compliant with internationally recognized standards such as ASTM, ISO, EN, JIS, DIN and BS.

United’s Tru-Blue II is an all scale computer-controlled Rockwell hardness tester utilizing a precision load cell for accurate force measurement. Tough, durable and easy to use. Removable clamping device allows for supporting odd shaped and large heavy parts.

What is Rockwell Hardness Testing?

The Rockwell Hardness Test is generally a non-destructive test performed on samples when it is necessary to determine how hard a material is.  Hugh M. Rockwell (1890–1957) and Stanley P. Rockwell (1886–1940) from Connecticut co-invented the first tester and a patent was granted in 1919. The Rockwell Hardness test is generally considered easier to perform compared to other methods such as Vickers or Brinell.

Hardness is defined as a material’s resistance to permanent indentation. Current Rockwell Hardness test methods are specified in ASTM E-18 and anyone wishing to perform a Rockwell Hardness test should become familiar with this test standard.

Rockwell Hardness Test Procedure

The Rockwell hardness test consists of indenting the test material with a diamond cone or hardened steel ball indenter. Each time a test is performed two loads are applied to the sample being tested. First, the indenter is forced into the test material under a preliminary minor load and this depth is recorded. With the minor load still applied an additional load is introduced known as the major load which increases the depth of penetration on the sample. The Major load is then removed, and the force on the sample is returned to the minor load. The increase in the depth of penetration that results from applying and removing the major load is used to calculate the Rockwell hardness value.