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Introduction
The Seed Health Committee develops and publishes validated procedures for seed health testing, and 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 Method 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
STI 145 April 2013
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30th ISTA Congress 2013 - Register today!
30th ISTA Congress 2013
Antalya, Turkey
June 12-18, 2013
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Reports available from the ISTA Annual Meeting 2012
ISTA Annual Meeting 2012
June 11-14, 2012
Venlo, The Netherlands
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ISTA / ISF Experiment on Herbage Seed Lot Size
Technical Protocol and participating companies
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Outcome on the
World food security: urgent measures on seed needed
Second World Seed Conference 2009
held September 8-10,
in Rome, Italy
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ISTA Seed Mixture 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 list of 130 plant species that accredited laboratories may wish to include in their seed collections
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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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Accreditation Documents for the Testing of Specified Traits
Related Documents for download
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ISTA's Memorandum of Understanding with FAO
Read the full Press Release
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