Culture Media & Supplements

Whether you prefer to make your own media, buy prepared plates, or take advantage of easy-to-prepare convenience formats, our culture medium expertise and rigorous quality standards have made us a preferred supplier and trusted source of prepared media to laboratories all around the world.

Popular culture media and suppliments

Featured culture media and suppliments

Dehydrated Culture Media

Protect the quality and safety of your finished products with a vast selection of high quality base products, supplements, and special blends, including a wide range of animal-free formulations. All of our dehydrated media is tested for quality and performance before, during, and after manufacturing to make sure our finished product meets the needs of your finished product. All the familiar formulations that you use to ensure your lab performs optimally are right here at your fingertips. Dehydrated Culture Media is available under our legacy brands, Thermo Scientific Oxoid and Thermo Scientific Remel.

Prepared Media Plates

Achieve accurate, consistent results at every step of your workflow with a variety of high quality prepared plates in both common and specialised formulations. Select from a wide variety of monoplates and biplate. Test the depth and breadth of our collection for the most common organisms, or find the perfect media for those hard-to-grow microorganisms. Our General Media Plates section is a good place to start.

Chromogenic Prepared Media Plates

Detect, presumptively identify, and screen samples for pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms with speed and accuracy using chromogenic media. Colourful, easy-to-read colonies and short incubation times enable timely and important decision-making for both clinical and food testing laboratories.

Prepared Tubes

With hundreds of formulations and formats available, you can rest assured knowing we've also got it in a tube. When delicate aerobic or anaerobic conditions are called for or when you're looking to isolate and study a specific reaction, a tube of one of the world's favorite brands of prepared media is right here ready for you.

Laboratory Preparations

Perfect media - it's all in the preparation. Carbohydrates, cations, essential nutrients and nitrogen are just some of the many demands organisms can make. From agar to yeast extract, make in-house media with ease using lab preparation products from the experts.

Antibiotic Single Supplements

Develop your media with confidence. From raw material to final output, get 150 years of expertise on your side. Freeze dried supplements.

Dry Bags/Bagged Media

Save time with bagged bulk media. Reduce the time and labour involved with large volume media preparation with space-saving, easy-to-use bags, sterilized filters, connectors, and convenient pumps. Eliminate the need for extra lab supplies and unnecessary weighing and sterilisation steps during food microbiology testing. Just open, fill and dispense.

Dip Slides

Thermo Scientific Oxoid Dip slides are ideal for the monitoring of oil and water emulsions, and are an inexpensive way for carrying out microbiological surveys.

Veggitones

Need alternatives to meat-based peptones? Discover Veggietones - our range of highly nutritious, meat-free and GMO-free peptones.