The European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) is a European

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 non-profit organisation which promotes the collaboration and exchange of ideas and information on all aspects of culture collection activity. Corporate members of ECCO are microbial resource centres of countries with microbiological societies affiliated to the Federation of the European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

History

The organisation of the European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) was established in 1981.

See also

• World Federation for Culture Collections
  World Federation for Culture Collections
  The World Federation for Culture Collections is an international body formed under the umbrella of the International Union of Biological Sciences and a Federation within the International Union of Microbiological Societies....
  
  
• American Type Culture Collection
  American Type Culture Collection
  The American Type Culture Collection is a private, not-for-profit biological resource center whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the...
  
  (ATCC)

Source

• ECCO
• B. E. Kirsop, C. P. Kurtzman, T. Nakase, D. Yarrow, Living Resources for Biotechnology : Yeasts, 1988, p. 208
• D. L. Hawksworth, B. E. Kirsop, S. C. Jong, Filamentous Fungi (Living Resources for Biotechnology), 1988, pp.182-183