Microbiology Portfolio
Microbiological Testing Services
Start with the product, microorganism or microbial question, and decision the result needs to support, then select the appropriate culture-based or molecular pathway.
Culture-based services are organized into two practical pages: quantitative enumeration and specified-organism detection. Molecular work, including qPCR, remains a separately scoped pathway for defined targets and applications.
Culture-Based Services
Choose enumeration or detection
These two pages organize defined culture-method pathways around the result customers need: a quantitative microbial count or detection in a defined test portion. They are useful starting points, not necessarily an exhaustive list of organisms or methods the laboratory may support.
Quantitative Culture Testing
Culture-Based Enumeration Methods
Quantify viable microbial populations through plate-count and selective-media methods, with results and specifications matched to the product and reference procedure.
Explore Enumeration MethodsQualitative Culture Testing
Culture-Based Detection Methods
Evaluate specified microorganisms using a defined test portion and method-specific culture workflow, with custom not-detected specifications available from 1 g when suitable.
Explore Detection MethodsTesting Approaches
Culture-based and molecular pathways
The culture pages consolidate defined enumeration and detection services. Molecular methods remain separately scoped because target, assay, controls, preparation, and interpretation must be defined for each application.
Traditional Microbiology
Culture-based methods
Culture-based detection, recovery, confirmation, and enumeration workflows can be scoped when the target organism or group, matrix, reference procedure, sample unit, and decision rule are defined.
Enumeration and detection pages consolidate defined culture-method pathways. FDA food methods and other organism-specific requests may also be reviewed for availability.
Targeted Molecular Testing
Molecular techniques, including qPCR
qPCR and other approved molecular techniques can be scoped for a defined target and application when the assay, controls, matrix, preparation or enrichment, and interpretation basis are confirmed.
A molecular signal should not automatically be interpreted as a viable-organism count or as universal coverage across products and matrices.
Define The Result
Name what the result needs to answer
The same product may require different methods depending on whether the project calls for presence or absence, a quantitative count, or detection of a defined molecular target.
Qualitative detection
State the target organism or group, required sample unit, reference method, and presence-or-absence decision the result needs to support.
Quantitative enumeration
State the organism or indicator group, required units and reporting range, specification, and any dilution or decision rules that matter to the project.
Molecular target detection
State the molecular target, intended interpretation, required controls, and whether sample preparation or enrichment is part of the requested workflow.
Technical Review
Define the product, target, method, and decision
Share the complete project context so the laboratory can identify the appropriate pathway and confirm whether a defined method-and-matrix scope is supportable.
- Exact product, matrix, ingredients, processing, and preservative context
- Target organism, organism group, indicator, or molecular target
- Qualitative detection, quantitative enumeration, or molecular result needed
- Required FDA, USP, AOAC, customer, or other reference method and revision
- Specification, reporting units, limits, and decision rules
- Sampling plan, lot and unit count, available quantity, and requested deadline
- Target market and any method, report, or accreditation requirement
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