With today’s drive toward faster microbial identification, rapid methods such as MALDI-TOF MS and biochemical assays have transformed the pace of results - but they all rely on one essential step:
Cultivating colonies on reliable, high-quality culture media.
Without consistent growth, there’s nothing to identify. Traditional prepared media products remain the foundation of every accurate result, underpinning rapid technologies across both clinical and industrial settings. So where do the real differences lie?
Rapid vs Traditional
- Rapid methods offer speed, automation and real-time insights that help laboratories detect deviations sooner, streamline investigations and increase throughput.
- Traditional methods provide the consistent growth, selectivity and reliability that underpin every meaningful identification - and without the validation they provide, rapid methods become redundant.
Trusted formulations within AnalytiChem’s Redipor® range - including TSA, TSB, Nutrient Agar and Blood Agar - are produced to exacting standards, ensuring consistent pH, selectivity and performance batch after batch. This quality underpins confidence that what grows on the plate truly represents the sample, forming the basis for precise identification and regulatory compliance. When accuracy matters more than speed alone, proven quality is non-negotiable - and that’s where Redipor delivers every time.
And “traditional” also doesn’t mean outdated. Redipor TwistLock plates, for example, combine the reliability of conventional prepared media with features that streamline workflows, accelerate processes and increase efficiency without compromising results: secure, dual-position locking lids that allow faster, safer handling and transport, and side-positioned GS1 DataMatrix codes for rapid, contact-free scanning and digital traceability.
Rapid methods may be desirable, but they're unable to provide a complete solution. Traditional media products such as Redipor remain trusted, reliable and seamlessly integrated into laboratory workflows worldwide, and will always be the solid, dependable foundation upon which every modern microbial recovery and identification process relies.
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