Casein-Soyabean Digest Agar (Soybean-Casein Digest Agar) is supplied by the company, HIMEDIA.

This Casein-Soyabean Digest Agar,also called Soybean-Casein Digest Agar, is employed as a general purpose medium used for cultivation of a wide variety of microorganisms from pharmaceutical products in accordance with harmonized method of USP/EP/BP/JP/IP (Medium 2)

Product specifications:

• Catalog number: MH290-500G
• 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
• pH after sterilization ( 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: Light yellow coloured clear to slightly opalescent gel forms in Petri plates
• pH: 7.10-7.50
• Growth Promotion Test :Growth Promotion was carried out in accordance with the harmonized method of USP/EP/BP/JP, and growth was observed after an incubation at 30-35C for 18-24 hours. Recovery rate is considered 100% for bacteria growth on Blood Agar and fungus growth on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar.