History of ISTA
1991: ISTA Interconvention Meeting in Bologna, Italy.
1993: First ISTA Symposium on Seed Health.
1994: ISTA Interconvention Meeting in Angers, France.
1995: During the ISTA Congress held in Copenhagen, ISTA Membership was opened to private laboratories and private seed companies.
1996: To ensure harmonised seed testing worldwide, ISTA initiated the Quality Assurance Programme to accredit seed testing laboratories. The first ISTA member Laboratory was audited under the new set-up that year.
1998: ISTA Website launched.
1999: ISTA celebrates it's 75th Anniversary at the First World Seed Conference held in Cambridge, UK.