Vitek Identification Cards

The Gram Negative kits, Gram Positive kits, Bacillus Cards, and Yeast cards are utilized by the Northeast Food and Feed Laboratory (NFFL) to identify microorganisms recovered from products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Products tested in the laboratory include, import foods and domestic products collected during establishment inspections of food processing facilities. These kits are an essential need to ensure that pathogens records are correctly identified in an accurate and timely manner. The kits must work flawlessly in the government owned Vitek instrument. The Laboratory has two Biomerieux VITEK 2 COMPACT instruments in service for which kits of test cards are needed to run the instrument to obtain results on confirming bacterial genus and species. Additionally, the majority of the methods employed by the Laboratory require the use of confirmation by VITEK 2 COMPACT in order to finalize results on regulatory samples of foods and cosmetics. The instrument is a VITEK® 2 COMPACT, manufactured by Biomerieux, serial numbers are #5083805 and #5147117. The Vitek instrument utilized in the laboratory is a data base driven system that requires specific test kits for identification of; yeast and mold, gram negative bacteria, gram positive bacteria and anaerobic microorganisms. The Vitek instrumentation utilized in the laboratory accurately identifies pure cultural isolates to genus and species providing a probability in percentage depending on the microorganism and card utilized for identification.

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