The purpose of certification is to maintain and make available to the public, high quality seed, sod and propagating material of superior crop varieties so grown and distributed as to insure genetic identity, genetic and mechanical purity, a minimum of seed-borne diseases and turf pests such as weeds, injurious insects, diseases and plant parasitic nematodes.
N.J. Admin. Code § 2:16-2.3
See: 27 New Jersey Register 4043(a), 28 New Jersey Register 257(a).