Credible cultures ensure reliable food safety programs
Built on a foundation of quality, compliance, and trusted standards, ATCC supports your food testing programs in delivering reliable results, meeting regulatory expectations, and safeguarding public health. With high-quality, authenticated reference strains cited in published laboratory methods and regulatory guidelines, ATCC helps ensure your testing workflows are accurate, standardized, and aligned with FDA, the Food Safety Modernization Act, and food testing accreditation.
- Support regulatory compliance
- Ensure accurate, defensible results
- Enable process validation and new method development
- Promote reproducibility and consistency across testing labs
- Reduce risk and protect public health
- Advance safety and reputation
Don’t take chances on the accuracy of your test methods—trust ATCC food testing solutions to maintain your food safety programs.
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GenomeTrakr Validation Strain Set
The GenomeTrakr Validation Strain Set (GTVSS) comprises 32 bacterial strains used by the GenomeTrakr Network as controls to support validation and performance testing of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) workflows.
The set represents diverse foodborne and environmental pathogens and enables benchmarking of SNP recovery, plasmid and toxin detection, AMR analysis, GC‑content performance, and organism‑diversity workflows. The GTVSS is suitable for laboratories seeking reliable reference materials for the evaluation and comparison of sequencing pipelines, instrument platforms, library‑prep kits, and bioinformatics workflows.
Order nowSafer food starts with better testing
Foodborne illness is a major global health threat, impacting 1 in 10 people worldwide and causing an estimated 48 million cases annually in the United States alone—leading to 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. Beyond human health, these infections carry significant economic costs due to healthcare, recalls, liability, and outbreak response.
Ensuring food safety requires rigorous testing of products, raw materials, and equipment for pathogen contamination. Reliable results depend on the use of well-characterized, standardized reference strains to support accurate microbial identification and assay validation. These strains play a critical role in detecting key foodborne pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica, Campylobacter spp., Escherichia coli, and Shigella spp., helping laboratories deliver consistent, reproducible, and defensible results.
