Laboratory horror stories: Poison in the agars.
Mari K DavidsonReine U ProtacioDominique HelmlingerWayne P WahlsPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)
spores and vegetative cells on minimal media. Quality control checks that are not quantitative or that use only rich media can provide false assurances on the quality of the agar.Vendors should conduct rigorous, thorough, organism-specific tests for potential toxicity of each lot of agar as a pre-condition for its sale.