ISTA 2013 Secretary General Report
Dr. Benjamin (Beni) Kaufman
ISTA 2013 Secretary General Report
This presentation highlights parts of “Reports of the Secretary General, Proficiency Test Committee, Rules Committee and Editorial Board” found in the Activity Report of the ISTA Committees 2013.
The Activity Report in its entirety can be found at: https://www.seedtest.org/upload/cms/user/OGM14-
03ActivityReportoftheISTACommittees2013.pdf
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Finances of the Association (deferred)
• Acknowledgments
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Acknowledgments
2013 ISTA Secretariat Personnel Changes:
Thank You
Stephaney Cramer Office Assistant
Julia Punnacherry Office Assitant
Martina Haefeli, Event Organiser
Axel Ohleyer, Finance & Office Administrator
Present Secretariat Beni Kaufman
Secretary General
Rasha El-Khadem Accreditation & Tech Dept. Head
Cannice Gubser Membership
Branislava Opra System Auditor
Jonathan Taylor Publications
Agnes Hegedüs Sales & Admin
Nadine Ettel TCOM Coordinator
Florina Palada System Auditor
Patricia Muschick Administration, Head
Sejal Patel Administrator
Olga Stöckli Administrator
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Acknowledgments
ISTA Membership • Number of Member Laboratories in 2013: 212 • Two Members Laboratories were reinstated. • Six Members Laboratories were terminated • 10 new laboratories joined ISTA in 2013 including:
Country/Distinct Economy
Member Laboratory (Personal Member/Laboratory Representative)
Bosnia & Herzegovina • BAML0200
Federal Institute of Agriculture Sarajevo (Mirsad Mujkovic)
Brazil • BRML1100
National Agricultural Laboratory (Rosinha Mesquita)
China • CNML0500 • CNML0600
Incotec Agricultural Technology Co. (Emma Chen) Beijing Inspection and Quarantine Testing Center (Xinmiao Liang)
Germany • DEML2000
Gartenland Produktion GmbH (Susanne Krehl)
Japan • JPML0700
FASMAC Co., Ltd. (Junko Honda)
India • INML3100 INML3300
University of Agricultural Science Bangalore (Rame Gowda) Dhaanya Seeds Limited (Madhuri Devi Karlapudi)
Sudan • SDML0100
Khartoum Central Seed Testing Laboratory (Mona Jaber)
Ukraine • UAML0500
Mais Novomoskovsk Laboratory (Viktor Borysov)
Personal Membership • Number of Personal Members in 2013: 47 • Four new Personal Members Joined ISTA:
Country/Distinct Economy Personal Member
Estonia Margus Friedenthal, EEDM0001 France Arnaud Deltour, FRDM0010
Sylvie Ducournau, FRDM0012 Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu
Tso-Chi Yang, TWDM0003
Associate Membership • Number of Associate Members in 2013: 50.
Country/Distinct Economy Associate Member Argentina (ARAM0002) Liliana Ferrari (Univ. Nacional de Lomas de Zamora) Belgium (BEAM0001) Karel De Rudder (Bayer CropScience NV) France (FRAM0011) Nicolas Ponserre (GNIS, SOC, Service Documentation) Mexico (MXAM0004) Mónica Maya Castañeda (CESAVEG) Philippines (PHAM0003) Lingyu Zhang (DuPont Pioneer) Switzerland (CHAM0007) Francesco DellEndice (QualySense) United States of America (USAM0024) Deborah J. Meyer (California Dept. of Food & Ag)
• Twenty eight Personal Lab representative changes
Changes to Associate & Personal Membership
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Associate Personal
Honorary Members Section III., Article 4 (h) of the Articles of the ISTA:
“An Honorary Life Member is a person who in the opinion of the Association has made an outstanding contribution to the Association, and has been honoured by election to the
status.”
In 2013 there was one newly elected Honorary Life Member.
Alison A. Powell
Previously elected Honorary Life Members: Julianna Bányai (2010) [V 2013] Ronald Don (2008) Norbert Leist (2007) Attilio Lovato Honorary President at the Congress 2001.
Number of voting countries/distinct economies
In 2013, 63 members of the United Nations and 1 (1) distinct
economy held voting rights in ISTA
Countries having ISTA member laboratories
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Finances of the Association
• Acknowledgments
Proficiency tests 2013 - three ordinary proficiency test rounds
- one vigour proficiency test round
Dispatch date Species Test type Number of participants
28 January 2013 Phalaris canariensis
P, OSD, G, OIC, MIX 128
29 May 2013 Pisum sativum G 159
14 August 2013 Brassica napus P, OSD, G, TZ, M 168
27 August 2013 Pinus sylvestris G 55
P = purity OSD = other seeds determination G = germination OIC = Orange ISTA Certificate MIX = mixture of additional other seeds for seed identification M = moisture TZ= Tetrazolium
Proficiency tests 2013 Reports
P = purity OSD = other seeds determination G=germination OIC = Orange ISTA Certificate MIX = mixture of additional other seeds for seed identification
PT round Test type Date Lactuca sativa P, OSD, G, OIC 15 March 2013 Phalaris canariensis P, OSD, G, OIC, MIX 26 July 2013 Pisum sativum G 8 October 2013
Seed health proficiency tests reports: Detection of Phomopsis complex on Glycine max (ISTA Rules method 7-016) - reported in July 2013. Detection of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris on Brassica spp. - have not yet been reported to the participants.
Rating of laboratory performance the overall ratings of accredited laboratories
after participation in six obligatory test rounds
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Germination (n = 100)
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Ratings of the last 12 test rounds, Germination
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10-1 F.aru 10-2 M.lup 10-3 V.fab 11-1 H.ann 11-1 L.odo 11-2 T.aes 11-3 T.pra 12-1 S.bic 12-2 P.pra 12-3 L.sat 13-1 P.can 13-2 P.sat
Test rounds
In-round PT performance in germination - accredited laboratories BMP C B A
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10-1 F.aru 10-2 M.lup 10-3 V.fab 11-1 H.ann 11-1 L.odo 11-2 T.aes 11-3 T.pra 12-1 S.bic 12-2 P.pra 12-3 L.sat 13-1 P.can 13-2 P.sat
Test rounds
In-round PT performance in germination - non-accredited laboratories
Audit programme • In 2013, 51 accreditation audit visits were carried out
• For eight laboratories, it was their first accreditation audit: Country/Distinct Economy Lab Code
CN CHINA CN05 CN-CHINA CN01 IT ITALY IT09 MX-MEXICO MX01 NL NETHERLANDS NL08 NZ NEW ZEALAND NZ05 RU-RUSSIAN FEDERATION RU07 US-UNITED STATES US09
• 13 laboratories were accredited under the principles of the Performance-Based Approach
ISTA Accreditation Overview • A total of 127 ISTA Accreditated laboratories • There were 59 countries/distinct economies with at
least one ISTA-accredited laboratory:
Pacific 7%
ISTA Accreditation Overview
2010 2011 2012 2013 ISTA laboratories 120 123 124 127
first accreditations 6 5 5 6 Cancellations and
withdrawals 2 0 4 2
Suspensions 1 2 1 2 Re-instatements 0 1 0 2
New applications for following year
3 3 5 1
Accreditation status changes from 2010 to 2013
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Accredited labs
Number of accredited laboratories since 2003
Sales of ISTA Certificates • A total of 158,100 certificates were sold by the end of
the year • A decrease of 13.4% compared to the previous year
Type 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Orange 124 270 110 517 110 700 132 200 129 050 172 100 150 700
Blue 6 800 6 050 5 400 6 450 5 700 10 400 7 400
Total 131 070 116 567 116 100 138 650 134 750 182 500 158 100
Sales of ISTA Certificates 2007–2013
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Acknowledgments
2013 ISTA Workshops overview
Place Date ISTA Workshop Denmark April Sampling and Quality Assurance in Seed Sampling
Denmark April Sampling and Quality Assurance in Seed Sampling
Turkey June Vigour Testing
Turkey June Purity and Germination
Switzerland July ISTA Seed Testing Quality Management Training Course
New Zealand September Seed Purity and Identification
Switzerland December *Quality Assurance Workshop in Seed Testing for advanced laboratories
Seven workshops were held on various seed testing subjects
A first…
• Organised by ISTA Accreditation and Technical Department on the premises of the
ISTA Secretariat. The workshop was designed for experienced analysts
• Lecturers: Ronald Don and Rasha El Khadem.
• 25 participants from 17 different countries laboratories.
• Practical exercises & lectures:The focus during the lecture was on the process of
internal audits, and the participants performed internal audits in groups. Calibration
and verification of equipment was a focus from the technical side.
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Place Date ISTA Workshop
Switzerland December *Quality Assurance Workshop in Seed Testing for advanced laboratories
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Acknowledgments
Electronic publication
In the process the Rules were reformatted in a number of ways:
• re-sizing the Rules to A4 • changing the layout to two columns. • All currently-available language versions (English, French
and German) of the Rules are now included in one PDF. • Chapters of the Rules are now available separately.
In addition: • Chapters 1, 2 and 7 are now available to non-members at
no cost. • ISTA members are able to download and print as many
copies of the Rules or individual chapters as they wish.
The ECOM Working Group on Publications and the ISTA Secretariat, has been working during 2013 on the electronic publication of the ISTA Rules. A goal achieved in Jan. 2014.
Sales of the ISTA Rules
Edition 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
ISTA Rules Sets 187 166 161 192 110 110 ISTA Rules (French) – 99 37 28 15 19 ISTA Rules Sets (German) 22 – – – 38 12 ISTA Rules Amendments 216 325 262 263 300 309 ISTA Rules Amendments (German)
19 – – – – 10
ISTA Rules Amendments (French)
– – 18 30 40 33
ISTA Annexe to Chapter 7 2 8 9 14 1 4
ISTA Publications and Products
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Handbook on Seed Sampling (2nd edition, 2004)
20 70 81 33 43
Handbook on Seedling Evaluation (2003 & 2006 + updates 2009)
50(103)
74 (55)
61 (12)
50 ( 9) 44 (48)
Handbook on Pure Seed Definitions 48 39 26 Handbook on Moisture Determination (2007)
18 20 14 19 16
Handbook on Flower Seed Testing (2010 Updates)
11 10 12 (3) 14 (1) 5 (3)
ISTA Working Sheets on Tetrazolium Testing Vol. I 2003 (Supplements 2011)
17 18 11(6) 12 (13) 25 (4)
ISTA Working Sheets on Tetrazolium Testing Vol. II 2003 (Supplements 2011)
12 4 8 (3) 8 (8) 11 (3)
Sales of ring binder handbooks
2013 Total sales of publications, 351 copies.
Excluding: International Rules for Seed Testing, Amendments and subscriptions for Seed Science and Technology.
Seed Science and Technology Papers received: 236 Papers accepted for publication: 44 Papers published in 3 issues: 19 + 14 + 16 = 49 Research Notes in 3 issues: 9 + 4 + 6 = 19 Issues published: 41-1, 41-2, 41-3
Sales: 300 copies of each Volume were printed. 177 subscriptions sold for the print edition 11 subscriptions sold for the individual online and print edition 14 for the individual online edition, 8 for the institutional online and print edition, and 23 for the institutional online edition 11 back issues were sold.
All ISTA Personal Members and staff of ISTA Member Laboratories are entitled to free
online subscriptions
Contents
• The ISTA Secretariat • ISTA Membership
• Accreditation Program
• ISTA Training and Education Program
• ISTA Publications and Product
• Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
ISTA Secretariat
Acknowledgments
ISTA Secretariat
ISTA Executive Committee
ISTA Members
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Rating of laboratory performance the overall ratings of accredited laboratories
after participation in six obligatory test rounds
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Purity (n = 97)
83 93 87
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2011 2012 2013
Other Seed Determination (n = 95)
84 92 77
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C BMP
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03-1 T.inc 04-1 T.aes 05-2 S.cer 07-2 M.sat 08-1 L.mul 09-2 L.usi 10-3 V.fab 11-2 T.aes 12-2 P.pra
Test rounds
In-round PT performance in moisture - accredited laboratories
BMPCBA
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03-1 T.inc 04-1 T.aes 05-2 S.cer 07-2 M.sat 08-1 L.mul 09-2 L.usi 10-3 V.fab 11-2 T.aes 12-2 P.pra
Test rounds
Ratings of the last 9 test rounds, Moisture
In-round PT performance in moisture - non-accredited laboratories
Ratings of the last 12 test rounds, Purity
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09-1 H.vul 09-2 L.usi 09-3 O.sat 10-1 F.aru 10-2 M.lup 11-1 H.ann 11-2 T.aes 11-3 T.pra 12-1 S.bic 12-2 P.pra 12-3 L.sat 13-1 P.can
Test rounds
In-round PT performance in purity - accredited laboratories
BMP
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09-1 H.vul 09-2 L.usu 09-3 O.sat 10-1 F.aru 10-2 M.lup 11-1 H.ann 11-2 T.aes 11-3 T.pra 12-1 S.bic 12-2 P.pra 12-3 L.sat 13-1 P.can
Test rounds
In-round PT performance in purity - non-accredited laboratories