American Type Culture Collection Heightens Consumer Protection As Leading Quality Control Provider Joins Global Initiative
MANASSAS, Va., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ATCC(R) announced today the addition of California-based Quality Technologies LLC to its Licensed Derivative(TM) program, a relationship that will improve the quality of microbiology products and protect consumers impacted by them.
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The license agreement between ATCC and Quality Technologies, a provider of commercial products to microbiology laboratories, represents a major expansion of ATCC's Licensed Derivative program and assures quality control professionals and consumers that products bearing ATCC's Licensed Derivative emblem contain microorganisms with confirmed identity, viability and purity.
ATCC is the world's largest biological resource center and the most comprehensive source of reference cultures and reagents used by researchers in academic, government and industrial laboratories. Frequently, unauthorized for-profit companies incorporate ATCC biomaterials into their own commercial products without complying with ATCC's material transfer agreement. Without an established relationship with ATCC, those firms sell products containing microorganisms that lack affirmation of authenticity from ATCC.
ATCC President and CEO Dr. Raymond Cypess, said, "We are delighted that Quality Technologies has joined ATCC's Licensed Derivative program and showed their dedication to aiding scientists and protecting consumers by expanding the range of products for which the identity and purity of ATCC-derived microorganisms is assured.
"As a public science company, ATCC takes very seriously our responsibility to ensure the safety and quality of the materials we provide," Cypess added. "Quality control professionals need to know with certainty that the materials at the foundation of their testing are authentic. By purchasing materials that carry the Licensed Derivative emblem, customers can trust that the characteristics of the ATCC-derived microorganisms have been maintained and verified until they reach the end users."
For over 10 years, Quality Technologies LLC has developed, manufactured and distributed commercial products for use in microbiological laboratories around the world.
"We are proud to be a part of the ATCC Licensed Derivative program," said Quality Technologies LLC President Dr. James Greenwood. "In joining ATCC's effort and passing their rigorous evaluation of our quality control and culture validation process, we further increase assurance for our customers that our family of microorganisms is derived directly from ATCC and maintains its characteristics in products used in the industrial, clinical or environmental setting."
About ATCC
Since 1925, ATCC, also known as American Type Culture Collection, has set the standard for authentication and distribution of biological reference materials for life science research in the public and private sector. ATCC's mission is to acquire, authenticate, preserve, develop, and distribute biological materials, information, technology, intellectual property, and standards for the advancement, validation, and application of scientific knowledge. Visit us online at: http://www.atcc.org.
About Quality Technologies
Quality Technologies was founded in the State of California in 1995 to use its proprietary technologies for development, manufacture and distribution of commercial products for microbiology laboratories. Quality Technologies is committed to provide a superior quality product at a competitive price and also exceeding the customer's expectations in performance and service. Visit us online at: http://www.Quality-Technologies.net.
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