Counter Excludes Debris

摘要

Synbiosis has added new features to its ProtoCOL automated colony designed to exclude food debris from the count. This makes counting faster and more reliable, ensuring microbiologists can easily determine the accurate levels of bacteria or moulds in food and prevent unnecessary and costly product recalls.rnThe ProtoCOL system's new software can simultaneously analyse images of the same or several different coloured colonies on spiral, pour or surface inoculated plates and has different levels of user access to provide laboratory managers with control of the system.rnThe software has been upgraded so microbiologists can train the instrument to automatically recognise, by either colour or shape, colonies they would expect to see,rnwhilst excluding fibrous food debris such as meat or fish from the count. This helps reduce manual analysis and means results are quickly obtained.