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Guidelines
  Guidelines for Becoming an ISTA Accredited Member Laboratory (209 KB)
  Guidelines for Becoming an ISTA Accredited Member Laboratory - Spanish Version (353 KB)
  How to respond to audit findings (241 KB)
  Guidelines for Developing Quality Documentation (871 KB)
  Explanatory note on how to issue ISTA Certificates (1261 KB)
 
Directives
  ISTA Seed Testing Laboratory Accreditation Standard (128 KB)
  Procedures for Termination, Suspension and Withdrawal of ISTA Accreditation (217 KB)
  Appeals and Complaints Procedure (118 KB)
  Scope of Accreditation Policy (435 KB)
  Principles and Conditions for Laboratory Accreditation under the performance based approach
  (102 KB)
  Performance data evaluation for the presence of seeds with specified traits in seed lots
  Performance Data Evaluation for Specified Trait Purity
  Conditions for making reference to a laboratory's membership and/or accreditation and the use of the ISTA Logo (153 KB)
  Accreditation of laboratories with facilities on multiple sites (98 KB)
 
PT Programme
  The ISTA Proficiency Test Programme (902 KB)
 
Links to TCOM Publications
 
Purity: The Universal List of Species  
 
 
 
 
Last updated: 13.02.2009

 


New issue of



SEED TESTING INTERNATIONAL (ISTA News Bulletin) No. 143 April 2012



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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MAY 15



ISTA Annual Meeting 2012
June 11-14, 2012
Venlo, The Netherlands
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Reports available from the ISTA Annual Meeting 2011



held June 13-16, 2011
Zurich, Switzerland
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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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