Flash & Go Colony Counter

Product Overview

Flash & Go frees highly qualified microbiology lab staff from labor-intensive and time-consuming colony counting and antibiotic inhibition zone measurements. Additionally, its state of the art image analysis software that can read an entire Petri plate instantaneously enables labs to heavily enhance their productivity and result reproducibility. Any microbiology lab involved in colony enumeration/ inhibition zone measurement, be it industrial, clinical, environmental, or research oriented may largely benefit from the use of this tool.

Once inserted in the colony counter, plates are illuminated with a sophisticated LED lighting system, next, a picture of them is taken with a high resolution camera. Instantly, the software detects colonies or haloes according to color and records a count or measure. Other than for colony counting, it can be used in Phage plaque assays and Ames testing for enumeration. On the other hand, it can measure inhibition zones during antibiotic potency measures and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST).

System Highlights

User-friendly: 

While fully customizable, Flash & Grow is simple and easy to use.

Powerful Image Processing:

An entire Petri plate is read in a Flash! Cutting edge customizable image processing enables differential counting of colonies with any color.

Upscalable:

Upgrades will allow labs to scale up their levels of automation in Petri plate reading starting with basic colony counting/inhibition zone measurements and ending at fully automated robotic plate feeding.

Traceability:

Full operator, sample and result traceability. Identification data can be scanned in using a barcode reader.

Verification and Validation:

Centering calibration and count verification procedures ensure the unit’s performance.