The document details 3M's food safety product portfolio, highlighting the features and benefits of 3M Petrifilm plates used for microbial testing across various industries. It emphasizes the efficiency, reliability, and space-saving advantages of these plates compared to traditional methods, while also mentioning the support provided to customers by 3M professionals. Additionally, it introduces Delta Instruments' dairy analysis instruments that comply with international standards.

1. Food Safety Products
Food Safety
Dr. Rajan Parikh

3. Food Safety Product Portfolio
Industries
•Dairy
•Meat, Poultry, Seafood &
Eggs
•Prepared & Processed Foods
•Fruits & Vegetables
•Beverage
•Contract Laboratories
•Cooling Tower & Process
Water
•Food Services & Catering
Product Applications
•Indicator Organism
Testing (With help of Petri
Film Plates)
• Pathogen & Toxin Testing
•Sample Handling & Media
•Rapid Hygiene Monitoring
•End Product Screening
•Time Temperature
Monitoring

4. Petrifilm™ Plates

5. Plastic film
Adhesive +
indicator
Adhesive
Plastic coated paper
printed with a grid
What is a 3M Petrifilm plate?
Multi-layer coating technology
logy
Cold water
soluble gel
Standard methods nutrients

6. Simply brilliant.
It provides fast, reliable and
consistently accurate results.

7. • Maximize productivity
Plates are sample-ready, eliminating the time-consuming,
cumbersome step of preparing agar dishes, increasing
efficiency by an average of 80.5%, saving an average
of 3.7 hours per day
• Improve consistency
Compared to the variability associated with agar
preparation, 3M’s standardized formula improves
consistency across technicians, shifts and plants—
worldwide. Each lot is quality tested ISO 9001 certified
• Easy to use
It easy to train technicians.
• Space saving
Petrifilm Plates compact and efficient, shelf-stable, thin
design takes up 85% less space than agar dishes, freeing
incubator and storage space and significantly reducing
biohazard waste.
Simply efficient Beneficial to Laboratory Technicians

8. Simply productive.
1 - Inoculation
2 - Incubation
3 - Interprétation
3 steps only …..

9. Total Count Enterobacteriaceae
E. coli/Coliform
Yeast and Mold Rapid ColiformColiform
High-Sensitivity ColiformStaph Express Select E. coli
Petrifilm Plates:
A plate for almost any kind of
organism count.
Environmental
Listeria
Simply comprehensive.

10. Trusted by 91 of the top 100 U.S. food companies
validated around the world.
Precise, consistent results. More than 200
certificates, recognitions, validations and peer-
review publications.
ISO 16140 Certification (AFNOR)
AOAC® International—Research Institute SM
International Dairy Federation (FIL/IDF)
Bulletins 285/1993 and 350/2000
Simply reputable.

11. Global experience.
Local support.
Every day, 3M Food Safety professionals
are there to support you locally by
providing technical help and exceptional
service., help keep businesses like yours
moving forward.
Simply supportive.

12. consistently accurate
Automated plate reading is fast, Simple,
reliable, time after time.
It processes the five most common plate
tests (Aerobic Count, Coliform Count, E.
coli/Coliform Count, E. coli Count and
Enterobacteriaceae Count)
3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate Reader...
The Petrifilm Plate Reader:
 Reduces the chance for human error
 Decreases variations
 Allows data management
 Can store actual color images of plates
counts in just 4 seconds

13. 3M™ Microbial Luminescence System (MLS)

14. Allows rapid assessment of Ultra Heat Treated (UHT) or
Extended Shelf Life (ESL) milk
• Reduces storage space and storage cost
• Increases cash flow
• Gives faster turns on inventory
MLS
Real time results to release product:

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3M Food Safety
“3M is the innovation company that never stops
inventing, because we’re passionate about making
progress happen. We keep our customers
competitive by tapping into our collaborative culture to
provide a never-ending evolution of ideas
and technologies to solvethe world’s
most
critical
problems.

17. Take Home Message
For more than 30 years food safety professionals around the world have trusted 3M™
Petrifilm™ Plates for fast, accurate microbial quantitative testing.
These revolutionary, ready-to-use plates have streamlined, standardized and simplified
microbial testing and analysis.
The studies help prove what most food safety professionals already know:
3M Petrifilm Plates provide consistently accurate results, improve
technician productivity and help reduce costs
When you use 3M products, you gain an international
partner that has the resources to support you.

18. Introduction
Delta Instruments B.V
Delta Instruments
Analytical Science in Dairy

19. Part of the Advanced Instruments Holding

20. The LactoScope C3/4+, versatile
Infrared Absorption dairy analyser
Analysed for fat, protein and total solids
The LactoScope FTIR Advanced is a
complete dairy analyzer
Based on Fourier Transform spectroscopy.
Fluid milk and cream to cultured products and
ice creams can be analyzed for multiple
components
Instruments Offered

21. Instruments
The SomaScope Smart is a stand-alone
somatic cell counter.
Based on proven Flow Cytometry technology
with LED source recognized by the
International Dairy Federation (IDF).
The CombiScope FTIR 300/600 series, High
Performance offer the highest available speed in
routine analysis of cow, goat, sheep and buffalo
milk.

22. Approvals & Standards
IDF – International Dairy Federation
ICAR – Indian Council of Agricultural Research
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
AOAC – Association of Analytical Communities
NCIMS – National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipment

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