Food & Environmental
Food and environmental microbiology laboratories play a vital role in protecting public health and ensuring regulatory compliance, from testing food products and processing environments for the presence of pathogens to monitoring water systems for Legionella. Whether conducting routine microbiological quality control or responding to a food safety incident, the reliability of your results depends on the quality of the products and tools you use. Mast Group has supplied food and environmental microbiology laboratories for decades, providing the culture media, supplements and identification tools your laboratory can depend on.
Culture media and supplements
Consistent, high-quality culture media is the foundation of reliable microbiological results. Mast Group's extensive range of dehydrated culture media covers the selective, differential and enrichment formulations required for the detection of key pathogens including Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter, E. coli (including VTEC/STEC) and Legionella. MAST® SELECTATAB and MAST® SELECTAVIAL selective supplements offer a convenient and reproducible way to prepare selective media in-house. For laboratories formulating their own media, Mast's range of culture media raw materials provides the individual components needed to prepare bespoke formulations to specification.
Identification and detection
Confident identification of isolated organisms is essential for quality control, regulatory and public health purposes. Mast Group offers a range of identification tools suited to the organisms most frequently encountered in food and environmental microbiology. The MAST® Campylobacter latex agglutination kits deliver rapid, clear results directly from culture, while MAST® ASSURE bacterial agglutinating antisera provide reliable serological identification of a broad range of food-significant pathogens including E. coli O157.
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