The National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) is a yeast culture collection, established in 1951,[1] and working under the Budapest Treaty for the storage of over 4,000 yeast cultures.[2] Located at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, England, since 1980. NCYC is part funded by the UK government but provides a commercial service to identify, store and supply yeast cultures. As well as the traditional baking and brewing yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, this culture collection also contains hundreds of non-pathogenic yeast species. The yeasts are kept frozen under liquid nitrogen or freeze-dried in glass ampoules. To ensure the collection's safety, it is also duplicated and stored off site. Yeasts have been stored and revived successfully decades later.[3]

National Collection of Yeast Cultures
National Collection of Yeast Cultures Location within Norfolk
OS grid reference	TG183077
• London	115 miles
Civil parish	Colney
District	South Norfolk
Shire county	Norfolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NORWICH
Postcode district	NR4
Dialling code	01603
Police	Norfolk
Fire	Norfolk
Ambulance	East of England
List of places UK England Norfolk 52.623820°N 1.224523°E / 52.623820; 1.224523

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• National Collection of Yeast Cultures
• UK National Culture Collections

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