Soyabean Casein Digest Medium is used for the total bacterial detection, cultivation and recommended for sterility testing in accordance with microbial limit testing by harmonized methodology of USP/EP/BP/JP/IP.
Soyabean Casein Digest Medium (SCDM) is widely used for the cultivation of microorganisms from environmental sources, supporting the growth of a wide variety of microorganisms including common aerobic, facultative and anaerobic bacteria and fungi. It is also used for preparing dilutions of organisms for colony counts and preparation of standard inocula for disc diffusion and dilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing as standardized by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS). This medium is used in sterility testing for the detection of contamination with low incidence fungi and aerobic bacteria and in the performance of microbial limit test.
Composition*
| Ingredients | g/L |
| Pancreatic Digest of Casein | 17.0 |
| Papaic Digest of Soyabean | 3.0 |
| Glucose Monohydrate | 2.5 |
| Sodium Chloride | 5.0 |
| Dibasic Hydrogen Phosphate | 2.5 |
*Adjusted to suit performance parameters.
Final pH (at 25°C) 7.3 ± 0.2
