SAINT LOUIS, MO – September 10, 2014 – Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) is pleased to announce that its Cerilliant® branded products are now available through Sigma-Aldrich Canada.

Service through Sigma-Aldrich Canada allows the Company’s Canadian customers to readily obtain Cerilliant products domestically, in local currency and language – eliminating the frustrations of customs clearance, import duties/taxes, and international shipping costs. Popular and high volume items will be stocked in the Toronto warehouse to best service Canadian customers. Products not stocked locally should be available within four business days.

Cerilliant provides high quality, quantitative, Certified Reference Materials in a solution format suitable for a wide variety of critical applications including quality control testing and preparation of calibrators and controls for clinical or forensic toxicology, clinical diagnostic, urine drug analysis, and isotope dilution methods. Cerilliant's Snap-N-Spike® | Snap-N-Shoot® format provides laboratories consistency of concentration and eliminates tedious weighing operations and handling of difficult materials. Cerilliant provides an industry leading Certificate of Analysis including all testing data with stability, uncertainty, and traceability information to meet customer regulatory requirements.

The Canadian launch marks the thirty-ninth country where Cerilliant Certified Reference Materials are available through Sigma-Aldrich including the U.S., all major countries in Europe, Japan, China, India, and Brazil.

"Our global presence, regulatory expertise, and world class supply chain allow us to bring these critical materials to laboratories around the globe. Customers can be assured of regulatory compliance and that product integrity is maintained throughout our supply chain," said Frank Wicks, Ph.D., Sigma-Aldrich Executive Vice President and President of the Applied Business Unit.