scope:

This document specifies general laboratory principles for use of biochemical and molecular procedures used to detect, identify, quantify, or confirm the presence of plant pests in plant materials, and provide guidelines for these procedures to ensure that different laboratories yield reliable, comparable and reproducible results.

This document is applicable to plant parts and any other respective matrices desired for testing to determine the presence of a plant pest. This document is not applicable to detection and/or identification of genetically modified organism (GMO) food stuffs, animal pathogens, and human health pathogens, as well as any materials, material components, or procedures that are not within the scope of the detection of molecular biomarkers for plant pests.