In experimemt of isolation of vactwria using special purpose media What is the chemical composition of EMB agar? The mannitol salt agar? Solution The special purpose media used for isolation of bacteria or also called enrichment media where you selectively allow one of the organims to grow with selective media composition. So the EMB agar also called as Eosin Methylene blue agar media chemical composition is peptone, lactose, dipotassium phosphate, eosin Y (dye), methylene blue (dye), and agar. Mannitol salt agar is also a differential growth media, It contains a high concentration (about 7.5%-10%) of salt (NaCl), making it selective for Gram-positive bacteria since this level of salt is inhibitory to most other bacteria. It is also a differential medium for mannitol-fermenting staphylococci, containing carbohydrate mannitol and the indicator phenol red, a pH indicator for detecting acid produced by mannitol-fermenting staphylococci..