American Type Culture Collection Standards Development Organization Gains ANSI Accreditation

MANASSAS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) announced today that it has received accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a Standards Development Organization (SDO). As a developer of industrial standards related to biological materials, ATCC will coordinate the drafting and revision of a series of voluntary consensus standards that will address laboratory testing and research protocols involving microorganisms, cell lines and other biological products, as well as standardization of the materials themselves.