Teepol Medium with Sterile Membrane Filter is supplied by HiMedia. It is a ready prepared media containing a pale coloured dry filter membrane pad of 50mm diameter. Standard Plate Count Medium w/ TTC is generally used for the total bacterial detection and enumeration with added growth indicator. It is advisable to store this ready prepared media between 10-30C. Composition (in gm/L) is as follows:

Part A

o Peptic digest of animal tissue (20.00)

o Lactose (10.00)

o Sodium chloride (5.00)

o Phenol red (0.02)

Part B

o Teepol (1.00)

DriFilter Membrane Nutrient Pad Medium is a ready to use sterile culture media. It is available in the form of a 50 mm biological inert absorbent pads soaked with Standard Plate Count Medium medium, then dried and sterilized in 55 mm petri plate. They obliterate the need of arduous media preparation and autoclaving procedures. The nutrient pads just need to be re-wetted with sterile distilled water prior to use. These nutrient pads allow larger sample volumes to be tested at a time. Interpretation of results can be directly done by counting the CFUs and by quantifying the microbial load present in the sample. Using teepol in place of bile salts was formerly suggested by Jameson and Emberley.