Fee increases for some CPCC services take effect on February 2, 2024 for all new orders. Please see our new list of fees. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Fee increases for some CPCC services take effect on January 30, 2023 for all new orders. Please see our new list of fees. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Prices for CPCC services have remained stable since 2012 for Non-profit customers and since 2015 for Commercial customers. Therefore, fee increases for all CPCC services will take effect on January 10, 2022 for all new orders.
Please note that as of Monday, May 1, 2017, the base Shipping & Handling fee for Canadian shipments on all new orders placed with the Canadian Phycological Culture Centre will be increasing from $20 to $25. Prices for larger volumes will also increase accordingly at a rate of $5 per additional L. Please see our updated List of Fees on May 1 for more details. We thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Effective Monday, September 21, 2015, the commercial cost for cultures will be increasing by CAD $5 for 15 and 30 mL volumes and by CAD $10 for 45 mL, 100 mL, 200 mL, and 500 mL volumes. Therefore, the cost for a 15 mL volume will be $180, a 30 mL volume will be $240, a 45 mL volume will be $260, a 100 mL volume will be $310, a 200 mL volume will be $360, and a 500 mL volume will be $410. We thank you for your understanding and continued support.
The Canadian Phycological Culture Centre (CPCC) is pleased to announce some great changes to our website. Our goal with these changes is to make your online culture ordering experience more convenient.
Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2012 resulted in a moratorium being placed upon the NSERC Major Resource Support (MRS) grant. NSERC programs under various names have supplied partial financial support for the CPCC since 1989, with the MRS grant being the most recent program. As a result of this financial support, we were able to provide significant discounts for non-profit users. With the loss of this funding from the Canadian Federal Government, the CPCC is currently relying solely upon user fees for revenue.
Due to the frequency of telephone and email requests for detailed information we are implementing a consultation fee for this service. There will now be a charge for time spent on these consultations in excess of 15 minutes at a rate of $48/hour for non-profit clients and $60/hour for commercial clients billed in 15 minute increments. Thank you for your understanding and for using CPCC services.
In order that you receive healthy, viable cultures we try to avoid shipping when weather conditions are extremely cold or hot. Our guidelines are to postpone shipments when the maximum daytime temperatures are over 28 C and overnight temperatures are lower than minus 15 C in the Waterloo, ON area or in the destination area. We will make every effort to ensure that the cultures are well packed to avoid freezing or overheating. If your need is urgent and the weather is unfavourable, we will try to accommodate your preferred schedule but this is at your own risk.
Seminars on controlling contamination in cultures: available in Sept and Oct 2009 at Corning Inc. Sponsored by ATCC and the Society for In Vitro Biology. The seminars are intended for animal culture but may be useful for algal culture as well. See http://www.corning.com/cls_webinars/online_training.htm