For enumeration of yeasts and moulds from food using membrane filter technique. Also recommended when ISO-Grid and Neo-Grid protocols of filtration are followed.
Yeast Mould Chloramphenicol Agar, Modified is recommended for enumeration of yeasts and moulds from food using membrane filter technique. It ia also recommended when ISO-Grid and Neo-Grid protocols of filtration are followed.Dextrose serves as fermentable carbon source.Trypan blue imparts blue colour to colonies of yeasts and moulds.Chlortetracycline and chloramphenicol selectively inhibits bacterial growth.Yeasts develop as blue coloured colonies while molds as blue-grey in colour.
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