Food and Beverage Testing

MIR and MLR Heated and Cooled Incubators

PHCbi brand offers a selection of products designed to facilitate the stringent demands of food and beverage testing, including accelerated shelf-life testing, assessing oxidative processes, evaluating light stability or humidity susceptibility, or optimizing packaging decisions.

PHCbi brand temperature-controlled incubator and humidified growth chamber models are designed for the precision and accuracy needed in the food and beverage industry.

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Performance and Flexibility

PHCbi brand heated and cooled microbiological incubators have a broader experimental temperature range, allowing hundreds of potential parameters to be utilized with a "hands-off" automated workflow.

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	Wide temperature range: -10°C to +60°C suitable for multiple applications

	PID heater control delivers the precision: Temperature ﬂuctuation of only +0.2°C

	Easy to set controller: Program as many as 10 multi-step protocols with up to 12 steps per program

	Schedule in advance: Testing can continue over the weekend or overnight

	Plant, algae, and insect studies: Two levels of illumination can be programmed to turn oﬀ and on as your research requires

Convenience and Ease of Use

	User-friendly: Easy to reach keypad and LCD display

	Maximize the use of your lab's layout: Select models oﬀer reversible door-swing and stackable options

	Simple cleaning: Corrosion-resistant stainless steel interior

	Facilitate long timed range experiments: Select models include a condensation pan pipe outlet

PHCbi brand heated and cooled incubators are designed for convenient use so you can focus on testing and outcomes.

The PHCbi brand growth chamber includes intuitive programmable functions, microprocessor design, data logging capability, calibration, and a humidity sensor with more control over environmental conditions.

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MIR Series Heated and Cooled Incubators

PHCbi brand laboratory incubators are designed to ensure reproducible environments that mimic real-world conditions. Our laboratory incubators allow for precise control of temperature, a low humidity setting and lighting protocols - making them ideal for microbiology testing and research, food and cosmetic shelf life testing, and municipal wastewater testing, plant cell culturing and more.

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MLR Humidified Plant Growth Chamber

As a crucial piece of laboratory equipment, the PHCbi brand humidified growth chamber is designed to ensure reproducible chamber conditions. The MLR series humidified growth chamber is designed to accurately reproduce and control an array of temperature, humidity, and lighting patterns - making it ideal for testing light sensitivity, packaging efficacy against humidity, accelerated shelf-life testing, plant cell culturing, and more.

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In The Field

PHCbi brand heated and cooled incubators have been utilized across a range of food and beverage testing experiments. Take a look and see their results.

BOTANY	Stress granule formation is induced by a threshold temperature rather than a temperature difference in Arabidopsis. Hamada, T., Yako, M., Minegishi, M., Sato, M., Kamei, Y., Yanagawa, Y., ... & Hara-Nishimura, I. (2018). Stress granule formation is induced by a threshold temperature rather than a temperature difference in Arabidopsis. Journal of cell science, 131(16), jcs216051. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.216051	2018

BOTANY MIR-154	Existence of circadian rhythm and its response behavior under different storage conditions of soybean sprouts Shomodder, A., Imaizumi, T., Nagata, M., Kasai, E., Shiina, T., Tsuta, M., ... & Nakano, K. (2023). Existence of circadian rhythm and its response behavior under different storage conditions of soybean sprouts. Journal of Plant Physiology, 281, 153906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2022.153906	2023

BOTANY MLR-352H-PA	Overexpression of Nictaba-Like Lectin Genes from Glycine max Confers Tolerance toward Pseudomonas syringae Infection, Aphid Infestation and Salt Stress in Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants Van Holle, S., Smagghe, G., & Van Damme, E. J. (2016). Overexpression of Nictaba-like lectin genes from Glycine max confers tolerance toward Pseudomonas syringae infection, aphid infestation and salt stress in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Frontiers in plant science, 7, 1590. https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpls.2016.01590	2021

ENTYMOLOGY	A fungal-based pesticide does not harm pollination service provided by the African stingless bee Meliponula ferruginea on cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Omuse, E. R., Niassy, S., Kiatoko, N., Lattorff, H. M. G., Wagacha, J. M., & Dubois, T. (2022). A fungal-based pesticide does not harm pollination service provided by the African stingless bee Meliponula ferruginea on cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Apidologie, 53(3), 28. https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fmicroorganisms10091800	2022

ENTYMOLOGY MIR-154	Effect of dietary meat content on weight gain, mortality, and pre-pupal rate in black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae. Kawasaki, K., Ohkawa, M., Zhao, J., & Yano, K. (2022). Effect of dietary meat content on weight gain, mortality, and pre-pupal rate in black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae. Insects, 13(3), 229. https://doi.org/10.3390%2Finsects13030229	2022

MICROBIOLOGY MIR-554	Prevalence of extreme heat-resistant Gram-negative bacteria carried by US cattle at harvest. Guragain, M., Smith, G. E., King, D. A., & Bosilevac, J. M. (2020). Prevalence of extreme heat-resistant Gram-negative bacteria carried by US cattle at harvest. Journal of Food Protection, 83(8), 1438-1443 https://doi.org/10.4315/JFP-20-103	2020

SHELF LIFE	Effect of post-harvest temperature of tomato 'Rinka 409' on quality and autofluorescence during overripening. Konagaya, K., Takahashi, N., Fukugaichi, S., Morimatsu, K., & Kuramoto, M. (2021, November). Effect of post-harvest temperature of tomato 'Rinka 409' on quality and autofluorescence during overripening. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 924, No. 1, p. 012020). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/924/1/012020	2021

SHELF LIFE	Utilization of deep sea at 4000 and 6000 m depths for long-term storage and quality improvement of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) muscle. Nakamura, Y., Sato, T., Oshima, K., Hagiwara, T., & Takahashi, K. (2023). Utilization of deep sea at 4000 and 6000 m depths for long-term storage and quality improvement of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) muscle. Food Bioscience, 53, 102724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbio.2023.102724	2023

SHELF LIFE MIR-254	Impacts of deep-sea aging on quality of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) and bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) meats Nakamura, Y., Sato, T., Takatori, M., Hirama, T., Oshima, K., & Takahashi, K. (2021). Impacts of deep-sea aging on quality of greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) and bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) meats. LWT, 146, 111326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2023.114640	2021

About PHC Corporation of North America

PHC Corporation of North America, located in Wood Dale, IL, is a leader in laboratory equipment for the biopharmaceutical, life sciences, academic, healthcare and government markets. Product lines under the PHCbi brand include the space saving and energy efficient VIP® ECO and TwinGuard® ultra-low temperature freezers, cryogenic and biomedical freezers, pharmacy and high-performance refrigerators, cell culture CO₂ and multigas incubators, and Drosophila/plant growth chambers. PHC Corporation of North America is a subsidiary of PHC Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, which is a global healthcare company that develops, manufactures, sells, and services solutions across diabetes management, healthcare solutions, diagnostics and life sciences.