Baltimore, MD - BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), through its BD Diagnostics segment, today announced the immediate availability of the new BD GasPak™ EZ Gas Generating Systems Product Line. The GasPak EZ System offers a total of six new varieties of gas-generating systems used for creating Anaerobic - Campylobacter - or CO2 enriched environments, either in containers or pouches. Both the GasPak™ EZ™ Container System and the GasPak™ EZ Pouch System are designed so that no water or catalyst is required for activation. The new Systems are also faster, requiring less time to create the desired environment as compared to the traditional GasPak™ line.
A key innovation in the GasPak EZ Container System is the new stackable, rectangular incubation container. The new containers feature easy-close latches, and a shatter resistant, polymer construction that is gas impermeable. They also offer removable Petri dish racks - designed to hold either 15-18 BBL™ plates in the small container, or 30-33 BBL plates in the larger container.
For isolation, cultivation and testing of up to three Petri dishes at a time, the GasPak EZ Pouch Systems are ideal. The easy-to-use, resealable GasPak plastic pouches do not require a sealing bar or heat sealer for closure. Each Pouch System kit contains 20 resealable pouches and 20 GasPak EZ gas-generating sachets. The Anaerobe Pouch System also includes 20 BBL Anaerobic Indicators to assure quality control of the system.
The new GasPak EZ Gas Generating Systems are the latest addition to the longstanding BD family of environmental generation products, including GasPak self-contained anaerobic jar systems, GasPak™ Pouch Systems and Bio-Bag™ Systems. For more information about the BD GasPak™ EZ Gas Generating Systems, please call BD Diagnostic Systems at 1-800-638-8663, selection 2.
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