Scan® 500 Automatic Colony Counter

1. HIGH RESOLUTION AND PERFORMANCE 
 Minimum colony size: 0.1 mm 
 1000 colonies CFU detected in 1 second 
 Live image (zoom x28) 
 Counts 30 dishes in 5 minutes (in real conditions with presettings)

2. COUNTS ON:

3. SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY 
 All functions in 1 window 
 Automatic optimization of the contrast, luminosity and sensitivity 
 Automatic corrections of the agar defects 
 Automatic separtion of confluent colonies 
 Automatic elimination of counting grids 
 Cross on each counted colony 
 Polygonal exclusion areas 
 Automatic adjustment of the counting area 
 Automatic settings for more than 20 pres-set media (PCA/TSA, MRS, VRBL, TBX, TSC, Baird Parker, GVPC, L.Mono, YM and more…)

4. INHIBITION ZONE, AGAR WELL 
 Rapid detection: up to 8 antibiotic sensitivities in 1 click 
 Inhibition zones and agar wells can be manually added or deleted 
 Built-in antibiotic database (CA-SFM, French Society of Microbiology) 
 Precision of inhibition zone measurement: 0.3 mm 
 Precision of agar well measurement: 0.3 mm

5. FULL TRACEABILITY 
 Harmonization of the results within a team 
 Automatic archiving and printing of data: pictures, comments & results 
 External traceability (Session saved, Excel™, PDF, JPEG, BMP, Scan printed report) 
 Internal traceability (Barcode, file archive, LIMS connection) 
 Securization of the sessions (Compliance with CFR 21 part 11: system securization, operational controls and documentation management)

6. EXCELLENT REPRODUCIBILITY AND REPEATABILITY 
 GLP (Good laboratory Practice) 
 CFR 21 Part 11