Lab Equipment 

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Time management is crucial in the agri/food industry. TEMPO® helps you:

• Speed up the selection and management of raw materials
• Accelerate corrective action in the case of non-compliance
• Expedite product release, especially for re-tests
• Accelerate stock rotation

TEMPO® helps gain time for other tasks:

• Assess production process to better understand and anticipate possible non-compliance
• Carry out trend analyses of results
• Revisit HACCP plan and monitor the critical control points
• Improve the training of production personnel in microbiological risks
• Reinforce food pathogen control plan or increase chemical analyses
• Increase testing analyses

USES

• Quality control food microbiology testing for determining overall product hygiene and also as an indication of product spoilage.
• Quality indicator enumeration of total viable counts, coliform counts, generic E. coli, and Enterobacteriaceae, lactic acid bacteria and Staphylococcus aureus, and yeast/molds for food and environmental samples.

TEMPO® Cards

bioMérieux innovates by proposing specific culture media which allow rapid bacterial growth. bioMérieux miniaturized the Most Probable Number (MPN) method with 16 tubes in a single consumable, the TEMPO® card.

• The card, at the heart of the TEMPO® system, offers the precision of the 16-tube MPN method without the usual tedious preparation.
• Each medium contains a fluorescent indicator based on the formula of traditional culture media and bioMérieux’s expertise in bacteriology.
• Each well in the card corresponds to a dilution tube and the size of the well corresponds to 1 to 3 levels of dilution.
• After distribution of the culture media-sample mixture in the wells of the card, the bacteria multiply during incubation and metabolize the culture media.
• According to the number and size of the positive wells (fluorescent or non-fluorescent), the TEMPO® system uses statistical methods to calculate the number of microorganisms present in the initial sample.
• The final result is expressed in CFU/g.

TEMPO® REAGENTS

• TEMPO® TVC (AOAC Research Institute Certification Number 120602): Enumeration of aerobic mesophilic total flora in 40-48 hours in food products and environmentals
• TEMPO® CC (AOAC Research Institute Certification Number 060702): Enumeration of coliforms following the Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM) definition in 22-27 hours for food and environmental samples
• TEMPO® EC (AOAC Research Institute Certification Number 080603): Enumeration of Escherichia coli in 22-27 hours in food products
• TEMPO® EB (AOAC Research Institute Certification Number 050801): Enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae in 22-27 hours in food products, with no need for confirmation
• TEMPO® LAB: Enumeration of lactic acid bacteria in 40-48 hours in food products
• TEMPO® STA: Enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus in 24-27 hours in food products, with no need for confirmation
• TEMPO® YM: Enumeration of yeasts and molds in 72-76 hours for food products