General Standards

5. Variety Eligibility Requirements
5.1 Certification Technical Committee
5.2 Submission of variety for review
5.3 Experimental Line Program (certification pending)
5.4 Labels

6. Classes of Certified Seed
6.1 Breeder Seed
6.2 Foundation Seed
6.3 Registered Seed
6.4 Certified Seed

7. Limitations of Generations
7.1 Recertification of the Certified Class
7.2 Production of an Additional Generation - 1 Year
7.3 Production of an Additional Generation - 1 Harvest
7.4 Generally Accepted Practices
7.5 Recertification of seed potatoes

8. Who May Grow for Certification

9. Land Requirements
9.1 Prohibited Noxious Weed Seed List
9.2 Restricted Noxious Weed Seed List
9.3 Isolation Requirements

10. Planting the Field
10.1 Equipment

11. Applying to Grow Certified Seed
11.1 Applications
11.2 Renewal Applications

12. Field Management

13. Field Inspection
13.1 Standards Applied
13.2 Responsibility
13.3 Re-inspection

14. Certification Number

15. Harvesting

16. Seed Transport from Field to an Approved Conditioning Facility

17. Movement of Seed
17.1 Intra-County movement of seed
17.2 Inter-County movement of seed
17.3 Inter-Agency (State) movement of seed

18. Conditioning
18.1 Approved Conditioning Facility
18.2 Accredited Conditioning Facility
18.3 Conditioner Records
18.4 Reconditioning

19. Sampling
19.1 California Seed Law
19.2 Federal Seed Act
19.3 AOSCA Seed Certification
19.4 AASCO Handbook on Seed Sampling

20. Seed Testing

21. Seed Certification
21.1 Online Request
21.2 Submit Laboratory Results
21.3 Verification
21.4 Substandard Seed

22. Certified Blends and Mixtures
22.1 In-Dirt Blend
22.2 Lot Blend
22.3 Varietal Blend
22.4 Mixtures

23. Seed Laboratory
23.1 Certification Seed Testing

24. Containers, Tags, and Labels
24.1 Bulk containers
24.2 Packaged containers
24.3 Certificates, Tags, and Labels
24.4 Labels & Label Requirements

25. Tagging Procedures
25.1 Pretagging
25.2 Tag Requests
25.3 Approval to Print Tags
25.4 Certification and Lot Numbers on Containers
25.5 Agricultural Commissioner Responsibility

26. Compliance with State and Federal Laws

27. Interagency Certification
27.1 Issuing labels
27.2 Interagency certification
27.3 Consigned authorization
27.4 Interagency certification labeling
27.5 Containers opened for relabeling
27.6 Filing of certification documents

28. Plant Variety Protection Act

Glossary