China updates plant variety testing procedures (10/07)

BioRegs Online

Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Plant Products Directorate / Plant Production Division / Variety Registration Office
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/variet/vartoce.shtml 

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Oficina Española de Variedades Vegetales (OEVV)
- Registro de Variedades Comerciales

• Guide to state seed regulations

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Fair Trading Regulations

Seed Publications

 

Federal Seed Act and Regulations

• Federal Seed Act 7 USC 1551-1611 - PDF file

• FSA Regulations 7 CFR 201 – Text File

• FSA Regulations 7 CFR 201 – PDF file

• Enforcement of the Varietal Labeling Provisions of the Federal Seed Act - PDF file

• Table 1- Weight of Working Sample - PDF file

• Agricultural Kind List

• Vegetable Kind List

Agricultural Marketing Act

• Agricultural Marketing Act 7 CFR 75

2010 State Noxious-Weed Seed Requirements

• Complete Publication (States and Appendix) - PDF file

• 2009 Database - Zip File

Germination

• Germination Test Date Requirements - PDF file

Recordkeeping

• Seed Company Records and the Federal Seed Act - PDF file

Treated Seed

• Labeling Requirements for Chemically Treated Seed – PDF file

Variety Names

• Facts About Naming and Labeling Varieties of Seed - PDF file

Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch

801 Summit Crossing Place, Suite C

Gastonia, North Carolina 28054-2193

Phone: 704-810-8871

FAX: 704-852-4189 (Lab), 4109(Regulatory)

email: seed.ams@usda.gov

IMPORTATION OF SMALL LOTS OF SEED WITHOUT PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATES

USDA/APHIS
Federal Register: click HERE

CROP COMMERCIALIZATION AND DEREGULATION RESOURCES (Information Systems for Biotechnology - Virginia Tech)

Petitions of Nonregulated Status Granted by APHIS
Search USDA Petitions of Nonregulated Status of GM Crops
U.S. Database of Completed Regulatory Agency Reviews
Commercialized Crops Worldwide

FIELD TEST RESOURCES (Information Systems for Biotechnology - Virginia Tech)

USDA field tests of GM crops
US EPA notifications 1998-present
US EPA notifications 1987-1997
US FDA List of consultations
Field tests worldwide

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

USDA/Plant Variety Protection Office
Find out if a variety of seed is still protected: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/pvplist.pl

Journal of Plant Registration (published by the Crop Science Society of America)

OTHER REGULATORY RESOURCES (Information Systems for Biotechnology - Virginia Tech)

USDA regulatory overview
General information on the regulatory process
USDA documents
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) documents
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents

PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION

USDA/Plant Variety Protection Office

STATE SEED REGULATIONS

http://www.amseed.org/member_SeedRegs.asp
American Seed Trade Association creates first comprehensive Guide to State Seed Regulations (01/07)

CALIFORNIA
What the small-time sellers of seed need to know before they sell seed in California
by John Heaton, Senior Agricultural Biologist, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Nursery, Seed & Cotton Program

VARIETY NAMING

USDA/AMS
US variety naming clearance process: http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/seed/varietyname.htm