01 — Intake
Identify plates before starting incubation.
Scan an individual plate or a closed transfer container to retrieve the samples ready for incubation. BioTrends EM® checks that the scanned item is eligible for the selected stage and alerts the operator if it is not. Scanning a closed container records incubation for all the plates it contains.
02 — INCUBATION STAGES
Single-stage or two-stage incubation.
Support the incubation sequence required by your procedure. Two-stage workflows can include an intermediate reading or a single final reading after the second stage.
SINGLE INCUBATION
One stage, followed by reading.
Record the selected incubator, temperature and duration for a single incubation stage, then proceed to colony counting.
hourstemperatureINCUBATION 1
Record the first stage.
Capture the first incubation stage with its own incubator, temperature, duration and start time. Proceed to an intermediate reading or directly to the second incubation stage, according to the procedure.
hourstemperatureINCUBATION 2
Complete the second stage.
Record the second stage against the same plate, preserving both stages in its history. Then proceed to the second reading or a single final reading, according to the workflow.
hourstemperatureFrom incubation to colony counting.
Scan each plate to record its colony count against the original sampling point and applicable limits.
The monitoring workflow