NOSB考虑用于有机土地上使用的种子的遗传污染透明度试点计划

2018年11月16日
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NOSB寻求玉米种植者的反馈

COMMENT DEADLINE: Jan 2, 2019
The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is an advisory board to the USDA National Organic Program (NOP). The NOSB is a multi-stakeholder volunteer board that advises the USDA NOP.

At the October 2018 NOSB Meeting in St. Paul, MN, the NOSB discussed a possible pilot project to measure GMO contamination in organic field corn seed. The goal of the proposal is to aid farmers in their choices of seed and provide farmers with more information about levels of GMO contamination in seed. The proposed pilot project is limited to field corn seed and was drafted by an organic farmer and longtime organic inspector.

The NOSB materials subcommittee continues to work on this proposal and would like more feedback from organic corn farmers on the proposal so that they have more farmer input leading into the Spring 2019 NOSB meeting.

美国农业部正在汇集关于春季诺斯布会议的这一提案的评论。向联邦登记册提交评论到2019年1月2日。

该提案被送回NOSB材料小组委员会进行更多工作。They would like more feedback from organic corn farmers on this proposal.您可以通过在NOSB会议上提交意见中提交评论来提交对提案的反馈意见。在此提交您的评论。评论必须在2018年12月7日之前提交。
阅读下面的提案。或者点击这里阅读该提案in the context of the full NOSB discussion.

VI提案

1. A system of sampling, testing and transparency of findings of GE contamination on all field corn seed planted on organic land is required. Once this has been implemented for one or two years, other at-risk crops could be added.
2.我们请求NOP根据此建议书开发“指令证明者”，并将其放在NOP计划手册中。
3.种植在有机土地上的所有田间玉米种子批次，既有有机土地，无论是有机和非植物种子，是否贩售或用于农场畜牧业，都应在农场有机系统计划（OSP）中，提供详细介绍州/省的信息种子的原籍国，以及Ge污染的纯度水平。此外，经过认证的有机领域玉米种子供应商必须在OSPS中跟踪这些物品。如果种植非洲玉米种子，则强制有机农民获得通过批准的协议确定的纯洁信息水平，并在其OSP中记录这一点。在种植他们购买的每批非有机种子之前，有机农民需要进行该测试。这些信息可以在作物年初或年度检查的提交的OSP中提供。
4. Seed suppliers or farmers have the option of five levels of purity, determined through approved sampling and testing protocols.
来自Ge污染的可检测水平的有机田玉米种子是：
一种。0.1％或更少
b. 0.25% or less
c. 0.9% or less
d. 5% or less
e。超过5％
5.记录测试和取样核准这些要求必须提供给种子的买家。
6. The level of purity must be included on the seed tag, or for bulk shipments, on the invoice or other sales document.
7.测试必须包括该作物物种中可用的所有已知的GE特征。
8. Outside labs used for this testing must be accredited to ISO 1 7025.
9.测试技术必须能够在GE污染的目标浓度的相对标准偏差的20％相对标准偏差内提供准确性。
10. If in-house testing is done, the equipment must be validated to have the accuracy required to declare the specific targeted level of purity from GE contamination. Additionally, personnel using the in-house equipment must have training and demonstrate proficiency on an annual basis, through the quantitative analysis of a blind sample.
11.必须将抽样协议确认为具有至少90％的统计速率，以便对GE存在量化的定量置信度。采样协议，例如由各种状态“作物改善”年龄NCIE的那些，将符合此要求。关于订阅这些议定书的各种国家和国际机构的信息，可以在此处找到这些协议。http://www.aosca.org/seed-certifying-agencies/
来自加州作物改善协会的种子采样协议的一个例子。http://ccia.ucdavis.edu/files/178676.pdf.
12.采样必须包括实现从清洁和即食种子衍生的成品种子批次的均匀混合的方法。
13.必须记录采样以说明样品足够完整，可用于有效的PCR定量分析。
14.必须对每种种子进行取样和测试。
15.认证程序将跟踪此信息并将此信息发送到中央数据库，而无需农民或种子供应商信息。这些信息将有助于有机群落更好地了解从有机土地使用的Ge污染的种子纯度水平，以及种乐动体育app下载子生产的区域差异。
16.这个通用电气transpa纯度检测和信息rency is required of all organic field corn seed suppliers and must be documented in the annual organic seed handler OSP. The organic field corn farmer would document the information from their organic field corn seed supplier in their OSP as well.
17.有机农民应保留他们在从该种子种植的作物种植后至少一年种植的每种种子的样品。