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Introduction
The Seed Health Committee develops and publishes validated procedures for seed health testing, and to promotes uniform application of these procedures for evaluation of seeds moving in international trade. Members of the SHC participate in conferences and training courses aimed at furthering these objectives, and establish and maintain liaison with other organisations having common or related interests in seed.
The SHC currently consists of 14 members from 14 countries. Each member has an assigned role within the committee. There are two subcommittees that deal with method validation and quality assurance and proficiency testing as well as four working groups organized along topic areas as determined by the SHC. The Methods Validation sub-committee oversees and manages the SHC Methods Validation Programme. The Proficiency Testing and Quality Assurance sub-committee develops, manages and directs the proficiency testing and quality assurance programmes of the SHC. This group interacts closely with the ISTA Proficiency Test Committee and ISTA accreditation auditors. Each working group is responsible for a broad area of study (mycology, bacteriology, virology and nematology), The working group leaders coordinate and guide the activities of a number of sub-working groups or study areas working on specific methods within the topic area. The main objective of the working groups is to identify and obtain new validated methods for ISTA. Any analyst in a laboratory experienced in the type of testing required in the proposed method may collaborate in the activities of a working group. Analysts may be recruited by personal contact, or through advertisement in the ISTA News Bulletin or on the ISTA Website. Interested analysts may contact the SHC and be placed in an inventory of potential collaborators for current or future studies. |
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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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REGISTER ONLINE NOW
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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