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Founded in 1920, NCTC - the National Collection of Type Cultures is the longest-established collection in the world offering a bacterial culture supply service, specialising in micro-organisms of significance for human health.  NCTC’s public access collection comprises over 6,000 bacterial strains, including Hazard Group 3 micro-organisms, spanning diverse clinical infections, global locations and pathogenic properties.  NCTC also supplies DNA and bacteriophage. In addition to the public access collection, NCTC holds a number of historic archive bacterial collections.

NCTC is one of the four collections (ECACC, NCTC, NCPV and NCPF) of the Culture Collections of the UK Health Security Agency. 

• Supply of freeze-dried cultures
• Supply of quantitative bacterial Reference Materials in LENTICULE disc format
• Preservation of bacteria by freeze drying
• International Deposit Authority (IDA) for the deposit of biological material under the Budapest Treaty
• Deposit of strains for public access or for safekeeping

NCTC have a quality management system in place that has been externally assessed to the international standard ISO 9001:2015.

NCTC Quality Control testing methods are accredited in accordance with the recognised International Standard to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.