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Service requests
In person
• a sample at the address indicated by the customer shall be taken by an inspector of the regional division of the State Plant Protection Service
• the customer takes the sample himself and delivers it to the National Phytosanitary Laboratory
Types of samples and their preparation requirements
• plant or parts thereof: branches, leaves, flowers, fruit, roots (onions, tubers, tubers), plant products:
- take the whole plant, plant parts or plant products with visible symptoms or signs of damage in such a way that the whole part of the plant of 4-5 cm is also taken around the sick part of the plant.
- take 3-5 plants or parts thereof depending on the nature and degree of damage
- the sample shall be placed in a plastic bag tightly lashed or stowed, or in a suitable closed container
• pest (insect or tick) at various stages of development (egg, larvae, larvae, imago) - place the sample in a stopper tube
• nematode cyst - insert the sample into a stopper tube
• soil, soils, soil substrate, peat:
- put the sample into a plastic bag
- the sample shall be taken as dry as possible (the sample shall not be taken during precipitation or immediately thereafter)
• Detectable organism in any form (micropreparate on slide, culture in Petri platter, tube, etc.)
• various types of pest traps (glue shields, ferro-borne catchers, etc.)
It may be specified in the national phytosanitary laboratory:
• in plants or parts of plants:
- diseases caused by mushrooms, bacteria, viruses, viroids
- pests (insects and ticks)
- nematodes
• in potatoes:
- the light and dark ring rot caused by bacteria
- quarantine and non-carantinic viruses and viroids (PSTVd) according to certification requirements
• pines in planting material - diseases caused by mushrooms according to certification requirements
• in soil and growing/growing substrate:
- Potato golden and pale cyst nematodes
- potato cancer
• in peat, harmful organisms according to the requirements of importing countries
• in grain and seed - weed seed according to the requirements of the importing countries
Documents to be submitted