Independent analytical testing. Results apply only to the sample received, for research use only.

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TAMC and TYMC

Seen on microbial reports from other laboratories.

Definition

Total aerobic microbial count and total yeast and mould count: two separate enumerations run on different media at different temperatures, reported separately. Canada Peptide Testing does not offer microbial enumeration, and the term is defined here only so a report carrying it can be read.

Enumeration is not a compendial sterility test, and only organisms that grow on the chosen media under the chosen conditions are counted.

Related terms

Colony-forming unit
One countable colony on a plate, written CFU, taken to represent one viable organism or clump capable of growing under the test conditions.
Sterility
The absence of viable organisms, established only by a specific compendial sterility test under defined conditions.

About contaminant testing

Endotoxin and elemental impurities, what neither of them establishes, and the microbiological vocabulary a reader still meets elsewhere.

Bacterial endotoxinEndotoxin unitPositive product controlMaximum valid dilutionElemental impurityMethod blank

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