Increase the productivity of your lab with food testing hardware and software that utilises breakthrough technology to help streamline your operation. The 3M portfolio of food testing products features automated solutions to help you improve productivity and keep moving forward.
Accurately enumerate plates in 6 seconds or less with the 3M™ Petrifilm™
Plate Reader Advanced. Discover how you can advance your lab's
productivity and testing capacity.
There's no slowing down with automated 3M Petrifilm Plate enumeration using the 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced. It’s time to advance the efficiency of your lab by
automating the imaging, interpretation and tracking of results. This system achieved up to 94% reduced time to enumerate 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates (observed on the 3M Petrifilm Aerobic Count Plate with High Counts).
See how food testing solutions from 3M can help you automate and streamline your operation with features designed to help improve productivity and maintain accuracy.
See how easy it is to get your lab up and running using the 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced.
Learn more about how 3M food testing technology can help your lab improve productivity and efficiency.
Visually counting colonies on a plate is a time-consuming task which has made automated plate counters a valuable tool in a microbiology laboratory. The 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced automates the enumeration of nine 3M Petrifilm Plates, plus the 3M Petrifilm Staph Express Disk to aid lab analysts while performing this task.
Join Brad Stawick, President and Technical Director at Stawick Laboratory Management, and Alec Teagarden from 3M Food Safety, for a discussion on ways that food laboratories can improve productivity and efficiency.
With significant productivity and performance advantages over traditional agar plates, it’s no wonder that 3M Petrifilm Plates have become a standard method in microbial indicator testing for companies all over the world.
Explore our standard 3M Petrifilm Plates for consistent, accurate and validated indicator testing or our rapid 3M Petrifilm Plates, with a faster time to result.
The 3M™ Molecular Detection System uses a single post-enrichment protocol for pathogen testing. This means you can run 96 tests of multiple types in one run. Coupled with the automation technology from the Hamilton® foodInspect™ NIMBUS®, food safety labs can automate key steps in their pathogen testing process – freeing up time to take on more value-added tasks.
The benefits of automation are clear: Increased productivity, reduced hands-on time and greater flexibility
All the advantages of the 3M Molecular Detection System are now available with automation by Hamilton® foodInspect™ NIMBUS®, bringing productivity and flexibility to your process. See what your lab could accomplish with this powerful partnership.
Duration: 1:00 min
Relax knowing it performs the same as a human operator.
Follow a single post-enrichment protocol for all 3M Molecular Detection Assays.
Allow personnel to take on additional value-added tasks.
Learn more about 3M Molecular Detection System automated by Hamilton® foodInspect™ NIMBUS and the advantages of pathogen testing automation (PDF 1MB).
Talk to a 3M Food Safety expert to discuss how 3M Lab Automation solutions could automate and support your indicator and pathogen testing process.
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Protecting the world’s food supply is a big responsibility — but we’re here to help. We’ve got people to support you locally with technical advice, software support, and exceptional service.
From purchase, through to installation and ongoing support, we’ll help you mitigate risk and improve operations — every batch, every shift, every day.
Free up your lab to focus on quality and efficiency with our ready to use, validated and accurate testing solution.
Accurate and reliable pathogen testing with our ready-to-use assays, single post-enrichment protocol for all pathogens and same- or next-day results for most matrices.
Better samples create better results. Standardise your sampling procedure and drive consistency and efficiency.
3M offers a broad range of products - from separation, filtration & purification products to personal protective equipment, surface & floor cleaning products to durable label and packaging solutions - that support food and beverage manufacturers. Take a look at how 3M can support you. (PDF 6MB)
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