Condalab in Italy

CABRU distributes Condalab in Italy, a Spanish manufacturer of culture media and microbiology ingredients active since 1960 with a plant in Madrid. The CABRU catalogue lists 1,157 Condalab references, the widest media range among the represented brands.

About Condalab

Condalab has been manufacturing culture media since 1960 at its Madrid plant and exports to more than 130 countries. It states more than 700 dehydrated media formulations and, less commonly, also produces the base ingredients — agars, peptones, agaroses — that go into the media. Its registered lines include CondaChrome® chromogenic media, Condalow® peptones and Condagene® qPCR kits.

What Condalab makes

• Microbiology media — classic agars and broths, selective and differential media, ready-to-use media and irradiated plates. → Microbiology culture media
• Chromogenic media, which develop colour in the presence of specific microbial enzymes and shorten identification: 35 references in the catalogue. → Guide to chromogenic media
• Base ingredients and powders — peptones, extracts, sugars and agars for in-house media preparation. → Solutions and powders
• Agaroses and molecular applications for nucleic acid electrophoresis: 75 references. → Nucleic acids

Condalab references in the CABRU catalogue

Of the 1,157 references in the CABRU catalogue, 1,031 are classified as microbiology, 122 as molecular biology and 4 as cell culture. The largest families are agars (515 references) and broths (213), followed by agaroses (75), peptones (55) and chromogenic media (35). Frequently requested lines include Sabouraud media (38 references) and Trypticasein Soy Agar (24), also available double or triple wrapped and irradiated.

Application areas

Clinical and veterinary microbiology, quality control of food, beverages, water, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, fermentation-based production processes, and basic microbiological research. Condalab states formulations compliant with ISO, European Pharmacopoeia, FDA, APHA, USP and AOAC: in quality control that is often the deciding criterion, because the medium has to survive the audit as much as the test.

Standard medium or custom formulation

Condalab states that it produces own-label media for customers and custom formulations. That route is worth considering when a specification or an internal method calls for a composition not listed, or a pack format other than standard. CABRU collects the specification and checks it with the manufacturer, first indicating whether a catalogue formulation already covers the case. CABRU distributes Condalab in Italy on a non-exclusive basis. → Request information and a quote