Automated Spiral Plating & Colony Counters

The Whitley WASP Touch spiral plater significantly reduces the need for costly, time consuming serial dilutions and produces high quality plates, which are easy to read and interpret. The system is simple to use and provides real cost savings and process improvements. WASP Touch is a precision laboratory instrument designed to deposit accurate volumes of liquid sample in an Archimedes spiral onto the surface of a rotating agar plate. Spiral plating is well documented and validated as an effective method for the enumeration of microorganisms. Spiral plating techniques are recognized in ISO 4833-2 & 7218 as well as the AOAC 977.27 standard.

Colony counters offered by Microbiology International are the most advanced available. Our ProtoCOL 3 automated colony counters are equipped with a unique detection system, a powerful software and digital camera control, as well as LED illumination. ProtoCOL 3 colony counters come standard with a built in computer, minimizing the foot print on the lab bench compared to other colony counters available. There are several software modules to suit almost any application requirement. The ProtoCOL 3 colony counters will count accurately and reliably; image and information regarding the counts are stored securely in a database. Our cost-efficient colony counter, the aCOLyte 3, connects directly to an already existing computer and is suitable for basic bacterial enumeration on standard Petri plates. This colony counter is a must have for labs on a budget that demand the accuracy, repeatability and consistency achieved through use of an automatic colony counter.