Bassersdorf, Switzerland
December 21, 2007
The
International Seed Testing
Association (ISTA) is pleased to announce that the proposal
to discontinue the ISTA Green International Seed Lot Certificate
was adopted by the ISTA voting delegates voting on behalf of
their
respective Government at the ISTA Congress in Iguaçu Falls,
Brazil in 2007. The new version of Chapter 17 on ISTA Seed
Analysis Certificates will come into force on January 1, 2008.
From then on, seed testing results will be reported on ISTA Blue
and ISTA Orange Certificates only. As in the past, results of
tests reported on ISTA Blue Seed Sample Certificates will refer
to the quality of the sample as submitted. Results reported on
ISTA Orange Seed Lot Certificates refer to the quality of a seed
lot as a whole since sampling and testing are conducted in
accordance with the ISTA Rules by ISTA accredited laboratories.
Cases where in the past the use of a Green Certificate was
required, i.e. sampling and testing performed by two different
laboratories in two different countries will now be covered by
the use of Orange Certificate exclusively. Full traceability is
ensured since name and address of both laboratories will be
reported on the ISTA Certificate.
With this change, the ISTA International Seed Testing
Association is confident that international trade of seed is
facilitated without any decrease in transparency and reliability
of test results. |
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