8th National Forum on Seed Meeting

The eighth meeting of the National Forum on Seed (NFS) was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa on March 26, 2007. More than 30 Forum members and observers attended. The Forum reviewed a report from the Working Group on Crop Specific Consultative Groups (CSCGs), received a status report from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on its Seed Program Modernization Consultative Initiative, and heard updates on the Canada Grain Council's project on Adventitious Presence (AP), the Plants with Novel Traits (PNT) Technical Working Group, and the exchange of correspondence with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs). The meeting also looked at NFS accomplishments to date, discussed future funding scenarios and considered which items on the Current Issues Agenda should be priorities for action in the coming year.

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