Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › SEEDS AND PLANTING STOCK CERTIFICATION › Chapter 16-301 - General seed regulations › Section 16-301-005 - General seed standards-Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Definitions for terms used in this chapter and in chapters
				  16-302 and 16-303 WAC may be found in chapter 15.49 RCW, seed. For the purposes
				  of these chapters, the following definitions shall apply unless otherwise
				  provided for in law or rule:
"Agricultural seed"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(2) includes grass,
				  forage, cereal, oil, fiber, and other kinds of crop seeds commonly recognized
				  within this state as agricultural seeds, lawn seeds, and combination of such
				  seeds, and may include common and restricted noxious weed seeds but not
				  prohibited noxious weed seeds.
"AOSA"
means the Association of Official Seed
				  Analysts.
"AOSCA"
means the Association of Official Seed
				  Certifying Agencies.
"Approved trial grounds"
means a specific parcel
				  of land approved by the director for experimental or limited production or
				  increase of bean seed.
"Bean"
means common beans and adzuki
				  beans.
"Blend"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(3) means seed
				  consisting of more than one variety of a species, each in excess of five
				  percent by weight of the whole.
"Blending"
as related to this chapter shall be
				  the process of commingling two or more lots of seed to form one lot of uniform
				  quality.
"Buyer"
means a person who purchases
				  seeds.
"Certifying agency"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(6) means:
(a) An agency authorized under the laws of any state,
				  territory, or possession to certify seed officially and which has standards and
				  procedures approved by the United States secretary of agriculture to assure the
				  genetic purity and identity of the seed certified; or
(b) An agency of a foreign country determined by the United
				  States Secretary of Agriculture to adhere to procedures and standards for seed
				  certification comparable to those adhered to generally by seed-certifying
				  agencies under (a) of this subsection.
"Common bean"
means
Phaseolus vulgaris
				  L
.
"Complete record"
means information which
				  relates to the origin, treatment, germination and purity (including variety) of
				  each lot of seed. Records include seed samples and records of declaration,
				  labels, purchases, sales, cleaning, bulking, treatment, handling, storage,
				  analyses, tests and examinations.
"Dealer"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(9) means any
				  person who distributes seeds.
"Department"
as defined in
				  RCW 15.49.011(10)
				   means the Washington state department of
				  agriculture or its duly authorized representative.
"Director"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(11) means the
				  director of the department of agriculture.
"Field standards"
means the tolerances permitted
				  as determined by established field inspection procedures.
"Fiscal year"
means the twelve-month period July
				  1 through June 30.
"Flower seeds"
as defined in
				  RCW 15.49.011(13)
				   include seeds of herbaceous plants grown for
				  their blooms, ornamental foliage, or other ornamental parts, and commonly known
				  and sold as flower seeds in this state.
"Germination"
as defined in
				  RCW 15.49.011(15)
				   means the emergence and development from the
				  seed embryo of those essential structures which, for the kind of seed in
				  question, are indicative of the ability to produce a normal plant under
				  favorable conditions.
"Interagency certification"
means the
				  participation of two or more official certifying agencies in performing the
				  services required to certify the same lot or lots of seed.
"Isolation standards"
means the distance in feet
				  from any contaminating source (i.e., distance from other fields of same
				  species).
"Label"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(21) includes a tag
				  or other device attached to or written, stamped, or printed on any container or
				  accompanying any lot of bulk seeds purporting to set forth the information
				  required on the seed label by chapter 15.49 RCW, and may include other
				  information including the requirement for mediation.
"Land standards"
means the number of years that
				  must elapse between the destruction of a stand of a kind, and establishment of
				  a stand of a specified class of a variety of the same kind (i.e., number of
				  years out of production of same crop kind).
"Mixture, mixed or mix"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(24) means seed
				  consisting of more than one species, each in excess of five percent by weight
				  of the whole.
"Nursery"
means an area of two acres or less in
				  which grass for seed production is seeded in rows with twenty-four inch minimum
				  spacing to facilitate roguing.
"O.E.C.D."
means the Organization for Economic
				  Cooperation and Development certification scheme.
"Off-type"
means a plant or seed which deviates
				  in one or more characteristics from that which has been described as being
				  usual for the strain or variety.
"Official certificate"
means a document issued
				  by an official testing agency including but not limited to seed certification
				  tags, bulk seed certification certificates, phyto-sanitary certificates,
				  laboratory sanitary certificates, and other letters, tags, stamps, or similar
				  documents certifying seed quality or condition.
"Official sample"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(25) means any
				  sample taken and designated as official by the department.
"Official seed laboratory"
means a seed testing
				  laboratory approved by the director, such as, but not limited to, Washington
				  State Seed Laboratory, 21 N 1st Avenue, Yakima, Washington; and Oregon State
				  Seed Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
"Open pollinated"
means seed produced as a
				  result of natural pollination as opposed to hybrid seed produced as a result of
				  controlled pollination.
"Origin"
means the county within the state of
				  Washington, or the state, territory, or country where a specific seed lot was
				  grown.
"Person"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(27) means an
				  individual, partnership, corporation, company, association, receiver, trustee
				  or agent.
"Proprietary variety"
means that crop variety
				  for which a person has exclusive production and/or marketing rights.
"Representative sample"
means a sample drawn in
				  accordance with sampling procedures adopted in WAC
				  16-301-095.
"Seeds"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(35) means
				  agricultural or vegetable seeds, or other seeds as determined by rules adopted
				  by the department.
"Seed labeling permit"
means a permit issued by
				  the department pursuant to
				  RCW
				  15.49.400 to a person labeling seed for
				  distribution in this state.
"Seed program advisory committee"
means a
				  committee of representatives from the small grains, pea, lentil, bean,
				  vegetable, small seeded legumes, and grass seed industries selected by the
				  program manager in consultation with the industry.
"Seed standards"
means the tolerances permitted
				  as determined by established seed inspection procedures.
"Serology"
means precipitation, agglutination,
				  immunodiffusion, or labeled antibody test methods (such as ELISA) that use the
				  specificity of antigen-antibody reactions to detect and identify antigenic
				  substances and the organisms such as viruses and bacteria that carry
				  viruses.
"Stock seed"
means breeders, prebasic, or like
				  initial generation of seed.
"Sudangrass"
means
Sorghum bicolor x
				  drummondii
.
"Top cross"
means the first generation of a
				  cross of an open pollinated variety with either an inbred line, a foundation
				  backcross, or a foundation single cross.
"University"
means the Washington State
				  University.
"USDA"
means the United States Department of
				  Agriculture.
"Vegetable seeds"
as defined in
				  RCW
				  15.49.011(40) include the
				  seeds of all crops that are grown in gardens and on truck farms and are
				  generally known and sold under the name of vegetable or herb seeds in this
				  state.
"WSCIA"
means the Washington State Crop
				  Improvement Association.
Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.49 and
					 34.05 RCW. 06-17-041, §
					 16-301-005, filed 8/8/06, effective 9/8/06; 03-18-072, § 16-301-005, filed
					 8/29/03, effective 9/29/03. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.49.005,
					 15.49.081,
					 15.49.310,
					 15.49.370(3) and
					 chapter
					 17.24 RCW. 00-24-077,
					 § 16-301-005, filed 12/4/00, effective
					 1/4/01.