In this year, two persons of TSS participated in different ISTA workshops individually. One attended the 2011 workshop on quality assurance in India which Indo-American hybrid Seeds(India) company held at Bangalore during August 8 to 12. The workshop was began by the Chairman of Dr.Rasha El-Khadem, and co-chaired with Dr. Ronald Don lecturer in this study. The five-day study contained Introduction to quality assurance system - customer complaints and other 25 courses, and more than 10 panel discussions and reports were include. At August 9, all of the Study participants went to No.IN07 of the ISTA laboratory for experimental operation and quality assurance exercises.。The other attended the 2011 workshop on seed purity in Canada was held by Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) at Saskatoon during September 27th-29th. The content of this workshop was including the introduction of ISTA and seed testing rules, pure seed definition (PSD), botany about seed purity analysis, uniform blowing procedure, calibration, identification of other seeds, quality assurance and issuing of international certificate. After workshop, a tour was arranged to visit the CFIA seed。testing laboratory in Saskatoon, and another visiting was permitted to CFIA plant pathology laboratory in Ottawa to learn seed health testing.。
In this year, two persons of TSS participated in different ISTA workshops individually. One attended the 2011 workshop on quality assurance in India which Indo-American hybrid Seeds(India) company held at Bangalore during August 8 to 12. The workshop was began by the Chairman of Dr.Rasha El-Khadem, and co-chaired with Dr. Ronald Don lecturer in this study. The five-day study contained Introduction to quality assurance system - customer complaints and other 25 courses, and more than 10 panel discussions and reports were include. At August 9, all of the Study participants went to No.IN07 of the ISTA laboratory for experimental operation and quality assurance exercises.。The other attended the 2011 workshop on seed purity in Canada was held by Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) at Saskatoon during September 27th-29th. The content of this workshop was including the introduction of ISTA and seed testing rules, pure seed definition (PSD), botany about seed purity analysis, uniform blowing procedure, calibration, identification of other seeds, quality assurance and issuing of international certificate. After workshop, a tour was arranged to visit the CFIA seed。testing laboratory in Saskatoon, and another visiting was permitted to CFIA plant pathology laboratory in Ottawa to learn seed health testing.。