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Culture media
News Release from: Oxoid | Subject: Culture media
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 25 January 2002
Ensuring quality of brewery water
Oxoid provides a complete range of culture media for the microbiological examination of brewery water supplies as recommended in Public Health and Safety Matters Report 71
In addition to testing the water used in the manufacture of beers and lagers, it is important to test the water used in cleaning processes also, in order to minimise potential routes for contamination Such contamination could lead to the presence of pathogenic or spoilage micro-organisms in the final product
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 22 Jan 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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