Casein Soyabean Digest Agar (SoyabeanCasein Digest Agar) (Tryptone Soya Agar) is supplied by the company, HIMEDIA.

This is a Casein Soyabean Digest Agar also called Soyabean Casein Digest Agar/Tryptone Soya Agar and is employed as ageneral purpose medium used for cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms from clinical and non-clinical samples and for sterility testing in pharmaceutical procedures.

Product specifications:

• Catalog number:M290-500G
• Brand: HIMEDIA
• Quantity/unit: Pack of 500g

Product composition:gm/L

• Tryptone : 15.000
• Soya peptone: 5.000
• Sodium chloride :5.000
• Agar :15.000
• Final pH ( at 25C) :7.30.2

Product features:

• Appearance : Cream to yellow homogeneous free flowing powder
• Gelling: Firm, comparable with 1.5% Agar gel
• Colour and Clarity of prepared medium: Basal Medium : Light yellow coloured clear to slightly opalescent gel. After addition of 5-7%w/v sterile defibrinated blood : Cherry red coloured opaque gel forms in Petri plates pH of 4.0% w/v aqueous solution at 25C .
• pH :7.10-7.50
• Cultural response: Cultural characteristics was observed after an incubation for Bacterial at 30-35C 18-24 hours and for Fungal at 30-35C <=5days.