New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Chapter III - Plant Industry
Subchapter A - Inspection and Sale of Seeds (Article 9, Agriculture and Markets Law)
Part 108 - Interagency Certification Standards And Procedures
Section 108.10 - Samples

(a) Samples as specified in the general seed certification standards shall be obtained for the certifying agency. Samples of all lots of seed whether processed or rebagged handled under the interagency certification shall be retained for the New York Seed Improvement Cooperative, Inc.

(b) Seed of lots handled under interagency certification shall be obtained in commerce and compared in the laboratory, and as growing plants with the sample submitted for final certification.

(c) Where certification service includes cleaning, bulking and blending, a representative sample of such seed is to be submitted to the seed laboratory of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva for testing as to compliance with the interagency certification standards.

(d) Seed previously interagency certified by an officially recognized seed certifying agency will be accepted for certification provided an analysis sample of the size specified in section 96.13 of this Title does not contain more than one prohibited seed and it meets New York standards in all other respects. If more than one prohibited weed seed is found the lot shall not be eligible for resampling unless it is reprocessed.