Molecular microbiology is a branch of microbiology which includes genomics, proteomics and cell culture.We offers complete solutions for these application workflows.

A complete range of laminar flow cabinets and hoods is available. For more detailed information please click below to open our specialist furniture microsite.

Qualitative and quantitative test strips for checking cleaning and disinfection processes in food and related industries.

Merckoquant (MQ) is a range of qualitative strips using a colour scale providing an indication of a range of concentration of a parameter within seconds with no need for auxillary reagents.

Reflectoquant (RQ) offers quantitative strips that need to be measured in a small RQflex® 10 reflectometer providing a result in less than a minute.

We offers a choice of methods. Air monitoring or dipslides and contact plates for surface monitoring as well as stand alone hygiene monitoring systems.

Rapid tests including PCR and real-time PCR tests, molecular biology reagents, consumables and equipment.

Cultivation of microorganisms requires replication of their preferred conditions. From benchtop dip slide incubators to large CO₂ incubators and anaerobic mini systems.

Everything you need, including consumables and equipment, to prepare culture media according to your requirements.

We offers a huge range of culture media and supplements. All manufactured in compliance with current standards to optimise your culture media and help protect you from toxic agents.

• Granulated dehydrated culture media

• Prepared media

• Additives, supplements and base materials

Melting point is a very useful and important value to determine the quality and purity of food ingredients and vegetable/animal oils and fats.

Well equipped melting point instruments now offer a video option of your melting point measurements to store your results.

A choice of infrared or halogen heating moisture analysers for routine or high precision applications.

• Optimum performance: repetitive results with readability up to 0.005 g
• Simple to operate, easy to set up and use, and also inexpensive to maintain 
• Modern robust design with great durability
• 2 models: MB 23 uses an infrared coil (no glass) and MB 25 uses a halogen lamp
  • MB23 infrared, simple to operate, ideal for routine tasks in food
  • MB25 halogen, for fast results, analytical precision combined with flexibility and dynamics

Rotational Viscometers:

Modern food means more and more convenience foods - so the producer must test parameters like viscosity during production as well as on the finished product. If you want your ketchup to flow properly - not run like water nor stick like honey - you need to ensure the right viscosity and test it with a rotational viscometer.

Density of solutions, liquids etc is a basic test for quality control in the food and beverage industry.

Refractometry is one of the basic methods for quantitative analysis and quality assurance methods in food and beverage industry.

Refractometers are frequently used by grape growers and the sugar industry for Brix testing of sucrose levels in their fruit. For more precise results, polarimeters are used to measure optical rotation of the sucrose solutions.

Test chambers for constant climatic conditions provide consistent temperature and humidity values for long-term testing of shelf life, packaging etc.

From the checking of rancidity in cooking oils to the content of fats in food with the soxhlet method, We offers a solution.

From the checking of rancidity in cooking oils to the content of fats in food with the soxhlet method We offer a solution.

The food industry has a long history of measuring the colour of their products. The most important quality aspects of industrial food are appearance and colour of the final products, as well as of the basic agricultural ingredients. Controlling the colour of incoming materials enables the food producer to reject any that are substandard before offloading and during processing in order that the final colour satisfies the consumers expectations.

Kjeldahl nitrogen determinations are performed on a variety of food substances. The Kjeldahl method may be broken down into three main steps: digestion, distillation, and titration.

1. Digestion: is accomplished by boiling a homogeneous sample in concentrated sulphuric acid. The end result is an ammonium sulphate solution.

2. Distillation: excess base is added to the digestion product to convert the ammonium salt to ammonia.

3. Titration: the amount of nitrogen in a sample can be calculated from the quantified amount of ammonia in the receiving solution. The ammonia is captured either with a carefully measured excess of a standardised acid solution (back titration) or a boric acid solution (direct titration)

Choice of compact volumetric or coulometric Karl Fisher titrators and related reagents for water determination.

• Volumetric Karl Fischer titrators are for medium to large volumes of water (mg range) combining fast and precise water content determination with easy operation
• Coulometric Karl Fischer titrators are for small water volumes (µg range) combining fast and precise water content determination with very simple operation
• Karl Fischer reagents

We offers a choice of both manual and automatic titrators to achieve the most in titration analysis within the food industry.

The measurement of salt (sodium chloride) concentration in the food and dairy industry is universal

Dont let the apparent simplicity of these tools fool you! Get great results - with the accuracy of instrumental analysis in moments.

• Merckoquant® test strips for semiquatitative determination. Ideal for screening
• Reflectoquant®, simplest possible handling combined with precision of instrumental analysis

pH is the major technique used in the analysis of foodstuffs. For other electrochemical techniques like conductivity, dissolved oxygen etc that might be used in the monitoring of production water and effluent please click below to enter our environmental microsite.

• Robust and impact resistant
• Pen Thermo Hygrometers
• Devices with fixed probe
• Devices with interchangeable probe

Infrared thermometers for non-contact surface measurement and dual infra-red/core thermometer, with laser pointer, dual infra-red and fold back thermometers, dual infra-red thermometers with probe connection available.

A large choice from low cost units up to precision core thermometers, HACCP models, dual infra-red/core thermometers and with calibration certificates.

Disposable temperature chart recorders - recording over 24 hours or several days.

Dataloggers are electronic devices that record data over time.

They are small, battery powered, portable, and equipped with a microprocessor and internal memory for data storage. One of the primary benefits of using data loggers is the ability to automatically collect data on a 24 hour basis. Upon activation, data loggers are typically deployed and left unattended to measure and record information for the duration of the monitoring period. Data loggers find many applications in the food industry such control temperature of fridges, freezers and autoclaves etc.

All shapes, sizes and temperatures but with safety and accuracy in common.

Lab grade fridges are important for temperature accuracy and for safety where solvents are used.

Try an autoclave deodorant for a perfumed touch in your lab.

Make sure that your load is sterile with these autoclave indicators.

We offers a large choice of data loggers including stainless steel models for monitoring autoclaves and for the validation of disinfection effects (norm ISO 15883-1 item 6.2.1 and 6.2.2).

Items used to prepare consumables for autoclaving.

A selection of containers for easy handling of materials to be autoclaved or disinfected.

If you prefer top loading autoclaves (to suit your workload or because of space contraints) we have a model for you.

From 23 to over 700 litres, VWR have autoclaves from most major manufacturers. Models featuring raid cooling, vacuum multiple prorams and pass through capability are all available. Whether you need to sterilise media, bags of waste material or medical instruments we have the model for you.

A large range of laboratory balances, including models with stainless steel pans and IP 67 protection. Weights designed for food industry are also available.

A range of water purification systems ideal for the microbiology laboratory.

Dissolved foodstuffs are often very difficult to filter due to the amount of relatively large particulate material present in the solution. Depending on the application and analytical technique involved, products including folded filter papers for gravity filtration or syringe filters for positive pressure filtration can be used to clarify samples

We offer microcentrifuges and bench centrifuges, refrigerated and ambient. Units are available from all market leading suppliers as well as our fantastic value, high performance VWR Collection range. All the appropriate consumables to make centrifugation easy are also available.

We offers a complete liquid handling solution.

• Quality products from the leading manufacturers in the industry
• Extensive product lines that support a wide range of applications
• On the cutting edge of environmental responsibility with innovative packaging design and recyclable content
   

Lab blenders for the food laboratory.

Sample reduction for crushing, mixing, homogenising and dispersing products from leading brands.

VWR offers a wide range of furnaces suitable for ashing as well as general purpose heat treatment applications. Plus an extensive range of containers (evaporating dishes or crucibles) suitable to withstand the high temperatures involved and remain inert.
 

The most complete and accurate range of microbial air samplers available. Complying with the guidelines for applications in cleanrooms, sterile environments in pharmaceutical companies and food and beverages industries.

Compliance to guidelines ISO14698 part 1 & 2.

Easy closure bags for secure samples.

Need a container for a sample or transport? We have it.

An all-in-one solution for microbiology sampling. Devices contain both membranes and funnels in one unit for water, food, pharma and other applications.

For all kinds of liquid samples.

Range of sampling tools.

Handy to have around!

A choice of swabs for all your microbiology applications.

A range of products for randomised sampling of solid products - milk powders, nuts, grains, meat etc

Colloidal nano-gold rapid test strip: Diagnostic and quality control tools to detect natural and chemical toxins in agriculture, feedstuffs, meat etc.

Screening the Aflatoxin contaminated corn and corn products in field in very short time. Especially for those clients and facilities who do not have labs and professional equipment. Even farmers can apply the assay within a simple indication.  

Preparative chromatography is a purification process using liquid chromatography. Our ranges of instruments will help you purify amounts of your product (from milligrams to grams) in a simple and effective way.

Flash chromatography is a fast and inexpensive separation technique for the purification of synthesised organic  products, for example in drug discovery or  natural extracts. It is a popular alternative when other separation techniques cannot be used or lack robustness.

Gas Chromatography is a well founded technique used widely in many laboratories; it has particular relevance in the environmental and beverage industries. It is used to separate and identify higher boiling point compounds that are typically volatiles or semi - volatiles, such as VOCs or POPs.

The main reasons why more and more laboratories are replacing their traditional gas supply systems and cylinders with gas generators are:

• Reduction in costs
• Safety of supply
• Purity - no risk of contamination
• Flexibility - can be moved around the lab

Today nearly all users of HPLC systems invest in a data system to control their instruments. Many laboratories have a mixture of instrumentation which ideally requires a software platform offering extensive control and data management over a wide range of vendors systems. VWR offer software to enable all of these capabilities with ease.

We offers a range of products for protein purification based on various proven technologies such as, IEX, ultra-filtration, dialysis and affinity purification.

Affinity technology can be used to isolate specific molecules from a mixture (e.g. His·Bind® purification), capture a desired molecule for interaction studies (e.g., immobilisation on GST·Bind™ resin), or remove a component from a reaction (e.g., protease removal with the Cleavage Capture Kits). For recombinant proteins, the addition of fusion tags using appropriate expression vectors enables affinity purification by a number of strategies.

In High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), We has one of the largest ranges available. Covering everything from solvents and columns to highly sophisticated instruments.

We offers a wide selection of paper products for analytical separations.

Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) and High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) are often referred to as Planar Chromatography. This is a modern classical separation technique, established worldwide and distinguished by flexibility, reliability and cost efficiency.

The goal of sample preparation is the removal of interfering sample components and the selective enrichment of the substances to be analysed.

With the number of samples to be analysed constantly growing, the development of high performance analytical instruments, highly sensitive detectors and the advances in the compilation of measurement data does much to help and VWR has everything you need.