3M Food Safety was recently named a 2022 Edison Awards™ gold winner in the Commercial Technology category for its 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate Reader Advanced technology. The Edison Awards recognize innovations that make a positive impact in the world. In the last decade, 3M Food Safety has achieved six Edison Awards for providing productivity and efficiency innovations to food manufacturing labs.
The 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced is an automation technology that allows food safety professionals to quickly and accurately image, count, and document microbiological colonies on 3M Petrifilm Plates indicator tests. The 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced saves food safety technicians time by rapidly automating the colony-counting step of 3M Petrifilm Plates.