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In 1993, the Seed Health Committee (formerly the Plant Disease Committee) began development of Guidelines for Comparative Testing of Methods for the Detection of Seed-borne Pathogens. This process has resulted in a complete revision of the method validation process for seed health testing as described in the Handbook of Method Validation (see Method Validation). As part of this process the method descriptions that appeared in the Annexe to Chapter 7 were rewritten into a new standardised format. Each method description is now a fully illustrated, self-contained package that includes full details of the test including media preparation, quality assurance information, pathogen identification and test evaluation. All the methods have been validated and accepted into the Annexe to Chapter 7 of the International Rules for Seed Testing, and have been removed from the Handbook on Seed Health Testing Working Sheets. Method descriptions are available either as part of the International Rules for Seed Testing or as a separate volume. |
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New issue of


 SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL (ISTA News Bulletin) No. 142 October 2011
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REGISTRATION NOW POSSIBLE


 ISTA Annual Meeting 2012 June 11-14, 2012 Venlo, The Netherlands
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Reports available from the ISTA Annual Meeting 2011


 held June 13-16, 2011 Zurich, Switzerland
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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size

Technical Protocol and participating companies More info »

Outcome on the


 World food security: urgent measures on seed needed
Second World Seed Conference 2009 held September 8-10, in Rome, Italy More info »

ISTA Seed Mixture Experiment

to collect information that may be used to determine the reliability of seed mixture test results and establish tolerances. More info »

Universal List of Species

ISTA list of 130 plant species that accredited laboratories may wish to include in their seed collections More info »

Position Paper on

ISTA's view regarding the units for the reporting of quantitative results on presence of seeds with specified traits in conventional seed lots More info »

Accreditation Documents for the Testing of Specified Traits

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ISTA's Memorandum of Understanding with FAO

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