CompactDry^TM is a ready-to-use system that reduces the time needed to perform microbial testing on food, cannabis, meat, cosmetics, raw materials and more.

Hardy Diagnostics CompactDry™ EC is a ready-to-use test method recommended for the isolation and enumeration of coliforms and Escherichia coli in raw materials, finished products, or on environmental surfaces pertaining to food and related industries.

CompactDry™ EC contains two kinds of chromogenic enzyme substrates: Magenta-Gal and X-Gluc. E. coli forms blue colonies, coliforms turn pink-purple. The total coliform group count is the sum of both the pink-purple and blue colonies.