On 31 Aug., 2016, the Ministry of
Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA) released a notice,
requiring agricultural departments to carry out inspection over seed production
bases around the country. Random check in fields should be finished before 15
Sept., 2016; the results and summaries should be submitted to the Bureau of
Seed Management of the MOA before the end of Nov. 2016.
Source: Baidu
In particular:
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To inspect corn seed production bases in 5
regions / provinces including Xinjiang Uygur, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia Hui
autonomous regions as well as in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces
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To inspect rice seed production (breeding)
bases in 16 provinces / municipalities / regions including: Jilin, Liaoning,
Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan,
Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces as well as Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region and Chongqing Municipality
According to the notice, agricultural departments should visit the offices of
seed enterprises or seed production organisations to check if their production
qualification meet requirement, if their products legal and if their production
files complete, etc. In addition, agricultural departments should also visit
seed production bases in fields to inspect their production acreage and collect
samples. In addition to local agricultural departments’ check, the MOA will
also randomly inspect those seed production bases and offices.
With the standard sample provided by the MOA as contrast, the authenticity of
the samples will be checked by the method of Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR)
Molecular Markers according to standards including the Corn Variety Appraisal
Procedure by SSR Molecular Markets (NY/T1432-2014) and the Rice Variety
Appraisal Procedure by SSR Molecular Markets (NY/T1433-2014).
The genetically
modified ingredients of the samples will be tested by test paper in the field
by inspection institutions. These tests should be carried out by local
agricultural departments. Without qualification for the tests, agricultural
departments should choose institutions authorised by the MOA to do the
tests.
This article comes from Seed China News 1609, CCM
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