Verify the media, not the consequences of bad media

Application

Verify the media, not the consequences of bad media

A media formulation error is discovered through its effect on a culture, days later, after the run is compromised.

The measurement problem

Media is prepared in bulk, quarantined, sampled and released. The release test is compositional and slow, so it is run once — which detects a formulation error but not a preparation error introduced afterwards, and not a lot-to-lot difference in a raw component.

A rapid compositional check at the point of use closes that gap, and does it in seconds rather than in the time a queue at the analytical lab takes.

What a live reading changes

  • Composition confirmed at the point of use, not only at release.
  • Lot-to-lot variation in incoming components made visible before it reaches a bioreactor.
  • A reproducible record for each preparation instead of a single release certificate.
  • The same instrument then follows the fermentation it feeds.

Is this your measurement?

Send the stream, the concentration range and the decision it blocks. Where it makes sense we test on your own process samples first.