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NZRM Culture Collection

The New Zealand Reference Culture Collection: Medical Section (NZRM) holds over 4,000 strains and supplies reference cultures for quality control, teaching and research.

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ESR maintains a culture collection of medically important bacteria which can be used for research, teaching and quality control. The New Zealand Reference Culture Collection: Medical Section (NZRM) holds over 4,000 bacteria strains and reference cultures.

About

About

NZRM has expertise in the preservation and storage of a range of bacteria and provides advice on strain selection for your specific purposes.

The NZRM holds bacterial strains that are of environmental and industrial relevance making us the local and most accessible supplier of control organisms to national and multinational companies within New Zealand. The NZRM is a member of the World Federation for Culture Collections.

NZRM customers vary from diagnostic laboratories through to commercial industry laboratories for quality assurance testing. Our industrial clients include meat, dairy, beverage, and confectionary producers as well as pharmaceutical, cosmetic and testing laboratories.

The NZRM also supplies cultures to tertiary education facilities and research institutes for teaching and research purposes. Local government authorities also source their cultures from us to test and maintain the quality of the water supply.

The NZRM also holds varied and historical isolates that represent New Zealand’s microbial diversity. The accessibility to these isolates make this collection a significant asset for studies relating to the genomic evolution of organisms within New Zealand.

Services

Conditions of sale and supply of NZRM micro-organisms

Conditions of sale and supply of NZRM micro-organisms

Strains are supplied for legitimate research purposes only on the understanding that the recipient will not seek intellectual property rights over the strain or any derivatives from the strain, or use them or any derivatives for the development of commercial products, without prior consultation with ESR.

Conditions:

Limitations

We will endeavour to replace non-variable or contaminated strains provided we are notified within a reasonable time of delivery.

Disclaimer

Customers receiving NZRM strains are responsible for their safe storage, handling and use. While strains are supplied in good faith as being accurately labelled as to identity, ESR cannot provide any guarantees on this matter. Identification usually relies on identification supplied by the depositor but may have been updated in the light of further research.

Permits

It is the responsibility of customers to supply any permits and special mailing instructions needed for the strains ordered. Cultures are usually airmailed unless courier is specifically requested or IATA regulations or any other regulations require otherwise.

Ownership

Strains are accessioned to NZRM on the basis that the depositor is the rightful owner and, unless otherwise arranged at the time of deposition, they are available for legitimate research purposes. Recipients who wish to seek intellectual property rights over the strain or any derivatives from the strain, or use them or any derivatives for the development of commercial products, must consult with ESR, who will act on behalf of the owner and ensure fulfilment of obligations under the Convention of Biological Diversity concerning fair equitable benefit sharing.

Transfer

The recipient shall not distribute, sell, lend or otherwise transfer the strains or any derivatives to third parties, without prior consultation with ESR.

Publication and data lodging

The recipient agrees to mention the NZRM strain number in all publications and public database deposits (eg, GenBank, etc) that refer to the strain or any derivatives. In GenBank submissions the NZRM culture should be cited in the format: /culture_collection=“NZRM:2496”. 

Contact us

For more information please contact: culturecollection@esr.cri.nz