3M Celebrates Three Decades of Petrifilm Plates Innovations

ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M Food Safety is marking the 30th anniversary of the introduction of its revolutionary 3M Petrifilm Plates, the worldwide standard for fast, simple, easy-to-interpret indicator testing.

First introduced in 1984, the 3M Petrifilm Plate technology has long been the industry standard for efficient and reliable colony interpretation and enumeration for food and beverage processors. For three decades, food safety professionals around the world have put their trust in 3M Petrifilm Plates for microbial indicator tests that are fast, reliable and consistently accurate.