Colilert*-18

An 18-hour test for total coliforms and E. coli

The choice worldwide for fast, accurate results

Easy
• Eliminate media preparation and colony counting.
• Simplify training, testing, and quality control (QC).
• Contains no hazardous materials.

Rapid
• Less than 1 minute of hands-on time; no confirmations needed.
• Detect total coliforms and E. coli simultaneously in 18 hours.

Accurate
• Comprehensive validation according to International Organization of
Standardization (ISO) 13843.
• Detect a single viable coliform or E. coli per sample.
• Reduce false positive and false negative results.
• Eliminate the subjective interpretation required with traditional methods.

Flexible
• Use for presence/absence or quantification testing with Quanti-Tray*
and Quanti-Tray*/2000.
• Read afternoon samples the next morning, before the next day’s
samples arrive.
• Validated on a wide range of water matrices.

Colilert*-18 is U.S. EPA approved, is included in Standard Methods for the

Examination of Water and Wastewater, has been validated by the Association
Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), and is an ISO method (ISO 9308-2:2012).

IDEXX Water QC Lab is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005. ISO 9001 2008 CERTIFIED
Colilert*-18: The standard for speed and simplicity

Getting started

Add reagent to
water sample and
shake to dissolve.

Quantification Presence/Absence

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Pour sample into Incubate for

Quanti-Tray*. 18 hours.

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Seal using the Read results:

IDEXX Quanti-Tray*
Yellow is positive for
Sealer PLUS and
total coliforms.
incubate 18 hours.
Yellow and
fluorescent is
positive for E. coli.
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Read results:
Yellow wells are
positive for total
coliforms.
Yellow and
fluorescent wells
are positive for
E. coli.

Quanti-Tray* provides most probable number (MPN)

counts of up to 200 per 100 mL sample.
Quanti-Tray*/2000 provides MPN counts of up to 2,419 per
100 mL sample.

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