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Standardization of Media

After many years of dedicated effort by a number of individuals and groups, the Microbiological Media Commission was incorporated in the State of Ohio on February 23, 1960, as a nonprofit corporation for the purposes of "the establishment of standardization and uniformity in the identity, composition, performance, and labeling of the more important microbiological culture media, ingredients, and reagents, in order to assure constant growth-promoting qualities for microorganisms so that results obtained in biological control and in investigations in different laboratories will be consistently reliable." This section resulted following resolutions or letters endorsing the formation of such a commission from organizations which included the American Dairy Science Association, Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, International Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians, and Society of American Bacteriologists.

TheCommission was incorporated in the name of Luther A. Black, Harold F. Clark, and Joseph C. McCaffrey, and the following designated as the first trustees: