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
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
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