Cryoinstant: porous beads for microbiological culture preservation

  • Ideal for storage of microbiological cultures.
  • A sterile cryotube that contains porous pearls in a conserving liquid.
  • 2 ml tube contains 25 porous beads and cryopreservative-added broth.

With these vials you can:

  • Get a perfect freezing storage system.
  • Obtain up to 25 replicates from the original microorganism, to use them during many years.
  • Ease the recovery of the stored strain streaking an inoculated bead directly onto solid media.
  • Prevent changes and repetitive thawing / freezing of the rest of beads.
  • Avoid the growth of ice when recovering.
  • Improve recovery rates of frozen cultures by adding cropreservative to broth.
  • Minimise the risk of cross contamination.
  • Save space in the freezers when storing.


  • Freezable up to -190°C.
  • When you need a particular culture again, you just have to inoculate one pearl on an appropriate culture medium.
  • Colour coding for a fast identification.
  • Cryovials are presented in carton boxes (resistant up to -100°C, dimensions (l x w x h): 150 x 150 55 mm).
  • Each box is supplied plastic-wrapped and labelled with code reference, batch, expiration date and specifying the colour of the caps and beads.
  • Shelf life: 48 months.
  • Autoclave sterile.

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