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December 2007
  06/ December 2007_Discontinuation of the ISTA Green Certificate (17 KB)
September 2006
  02/ September 2006_ISTA Accredits its 100th Seed Testing Laboratory (20 KB)
14 June 2006
  01/14 June 2006_The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (26 KB)
19 August 2005
  08/August 19, 2005_ISTA Accreditation of Laboratories on the Detection of Specified Traits in Seed Lots (25 KB)
29 July 2004
  01/July 27, 2004_ISTA Member Governments decide that the accreditation of a seed testing laboratory including authorisation to issue ISTA Certificates is a purely technical task (22 KB)
  02/July 27, 2004_ISTA Experiment on the Accreditation and Authorisation of Company Seed Testing Laboratories successfully finalised (22 KB)
9 January 2004
  0B/January 09, 2004_ISTA's 27th Congress, May 13-24, 2004, Budapest, Hungary (27 KB)
8 January 2004
  0A/January 08, 2004_ISTA initiates Proficiency Tests on GMO Testing in Conventional Seed (40 KB)

 


Latest issue of SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL



(ISTA News Bulletin) No. 138 October 2009 for available download
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PRESS RELEASE



World food security: urgent measures on seed needed

...read more about the outcome of the
Second World Seed Conference 2009
held September 8-10,
in Rome, Italy
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29th ISTA Congress 2010 (June 15-22)

Profit from the reduced fee for early registrations until Feburary 28, 2010
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REPORTS



ISTA Annual Meeting June 15-18, 2009 Glattbrugg, Switzerland
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Newly adopted:

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
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ISTA Seed Mixture Experiment

ISTA is initiating an experiment to collect information that may be used to determine the reliability of seed mixture test results and establish tolerances. 
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Universal List of Species

ISTA has published a list of 130 plant species that accredited laboratories may wish to include in their seed collections

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Accreditation Documents for the Testing of Specified Traits

Related Documents for download
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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size

The ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
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ISTA signs Memorandum of Understanding with FAO

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