National Livestock Breeding Centre

Membership Code	JPDL0300
Organisation	National Livestock Breeding Centre
Department	Nagano Station
Address	2029-1 Arakoda Saku 385-0007 Nagano
Country	Japan
Phone	0081267672501
FAX	0081267684743
E-Mail	nlbc_ISTA@nlbc.go.jp
Current Scope of Accreditation:	Sampling from the lot (SAM) SAM: Manual lot sampling grasses SAM: Manual lot sampling cereals SAM: Manual lot sampling small legumes Purity and identification of other seeds (PUR/OSD) PUR/OSD: Grasses PUR/OSD: Poa pratensis, Poa trivialis and Dactylis glomerata PUR/OSD: Cereals PUR/OSD: Small legumes Germination (GER) GER: Grasses GER: Cereals GER: Small legumes Viability (VIA) VIA: TTC Grasses VIA: TTC Cereals VIA: TTC Small legumes Verification of species and variety (VAR) VAR: Fluorescence of root traces on Lolium spp. Moisture content (MOI) MOI: Constant oven method: fine grinding MOI: Constant oven method: no grinding MOI: Constant oven method: coarse grinding Thousand-seed weight (TSW) (TSW) TSW: Grasses TSW: Cereals TSW: Small legumes Testing for genetically modified organisms (GMO) GMO: Zea mays / Rt-PCR GMO: Zea mays / PCR