Yeast and Mold Enumeration: Acidified medium for counting yeasts and molds in foods, beverages, and dairy products.

Environmental Monitoring: Settle/contact plates for fungal bioburden surveillance in cleanrooms and production areas.

Fungal Isolation and Cultivation: Primary recovery and routine culture of filamentous fungi and yeasts from mixed samples.

Sporulation and Morphology Studies: Promotes conidiation and characteristic colony morphology for identification.

Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic QC: Detection of fungal contamination in raw materials, in-process samples, and finished goods.

Water System Monitoring: Enumeration of fungi in purified and process waters.

Plant Pathology: Isolation of phytopathogenic fungi from seeds, plant tissues, and soils.

Antifungal Efficacy Testing: Recovery medium for challenge studies and preservative effectiveness tests.

Growth Promotion Testing: Compendial verification of fungal recovery performance for method suitability.

Microbial Limit Testing (Fungi): Selective enumeration of fungal contaminants in non-sterile products.