This is to provide information on all strains distributed in the past. The Curator has the final decision concerning strain entry or eventual withdrawal of a strain from the open database. The CCUG has no expertise in mycology , and will only distribute a small collection of filamentous fungi to facilitate the national accreditation work. Quality control of CCUG holdings will be quite limited and performed by external laboratories. We accept cultures for identification to our PHLS unit, in the spirit of helping other laboratories.
Identification is a matter of probabilities .
We do not pretend to give the final answer to identification problems and we do not act as a national authority. Our reports are designed for explaining the identification problems and the nomenclature, and are not suitable for use in court. Customers should familiarize themselves with the numerical analysis reports to be able to judge themselves of the probability of the listed or suggested taxa. Further tests may be ordered by the customer. These may change radically the probabilities.