READY TO USE ENVIRONMENTAL SWAB SYSTEM

• Simple to use convenient design helps improve sampling consistency
• Contains letheen neutralizing buffer to facilitate recovery of bacteria.
• One mL volume included ready for direct plating
• Volume markings at 1 to 4 ml for multi-volume plating
• Neogen Quick Swab can be used wet or dry

The Neogen Quick Swab is a convenient and quick collection device for sampling consisting of a five-inch, rayon-tipped swab containing letheen neutralizing buffer to facilitate recovery of bacteria. The swabs can be used wet or dry to sample surfaces and quickly deliver 1.0 mL of sample onto a Neogen Petrifilm™ Plate or other microbiological media. This sampling device is gamma irradiated for sterilisation, making it a ready-to-use product with a long shelf life. The Neogen Quick Swab is made in the USA and is ISO 9001:2008 certified for quality assurance.

The Neogen Quick Swab is one of the most efficient, cost effective and economical methods for environmental swabbing available. There is no need to prepare neutralizing diluents or use a pipette to add the sample to the plate or test. From technician to technician, accuracy, consistency and reproducibility in swab testing are all optimized by using labour-saving Neogen Quick Swabs.

The primary use of Letheen Broth is to neutralize the bactericidal action of quaternary ammonium compounds, and for determining the phenol co-efficient of cationic surfactants per the recommendation by the Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC). Letheen Broth is also used in hygiene swabbing practices where neutralizing quaternary ammonium compounds are required.

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