| Identifiers |
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| Product Name |
Brain Extract |
| Catalogue No. |
CM510149 |
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Description |
For a long time animal brain infusions have been one of the basic components of some culture media for fastidious microorganisms, and nowadays, in most cases they are still necessary. Scharlau Microbiology Brain Extract produces clear, clean and stable solutions at 121ºC, and provide the culture medium with very complex nutrients. It is obtained from brains of healthy pigs with ante- and post-mortem sanitary certification. Among the raw materials and auxiliaries used in its preparation, the bovine constituents belong to the category 4 of the WHO classification. The product does not contain and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in the European Commission Decision 97/534/EC. All the constituents are of swine origin. The manufacturing process includes boiling at 100ºC for a minimum of 5 minutes and instantaneous heating at 200ºC on spray drying. The most important characteristics are shown in the following tables and in Tables 1 to 6 at the beggining of this chapter. |