New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 101

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✨ Genetically Modified Organisms Approvals



2402 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 101

  1. Only persons authorised by Neil Koevoet shall be admitted to the trial site;

  2. The field trial shall be isolated by at least 200m from the nearest maize crop;

  3. The trial shall be machine planted, with all seed to be accounted for;

  4. Mature seeds from the field trial shall be hand harvested, dried, shelled, packaged at Corson’s Research station and shipped to Novartis facilities in France, or destroyed;

  5. For transfer to and from New Zealand the seeds shall be secured in labelled sealed packages or containers;

  6. The trial site shall remain fallow for at least 60 days upon completion of the field trial;

  7. The trial site shall be monitored throughout the growing season following the trial, with any volunteer maize to be destroyed by incineration;

  8. Corson Grains shall supply written verification to the IAG that all seed released by the Ministry of Agriculture was planted, exported or destroyed;

  9. Corson Grains shall supply written verification to the IAG that all seed originating from each trial has been shipped overseas or destroyed by incineration, after completion of each trial;

  10. Corson Grains shall submit any changes in the basic trial design to the IAG for approval;

  11. An annual written report shall be provided to the IAG within one month of harvest;

  12. A final report shall be provided to the IAG on completion of the field trial;

  13. The IAG, or its successor may inspect the trial site by arrangement with the applicants.

Trial start date December 1995
Completion date February 1998
Post harvest monitoring 30 February 1999
completion date

Trial Number 40
Project title Proposal to develop transgenic rams from which a manufacturing flock of transgenic ewes could be derived in order to produce hAAT in New Zealand

Approved 27 May 1996 - subject to site inspection and iwi consultation outcomes.
Approval to proceed given 31 October 1996.
Approved trial period May 1996-May 2001
Organism Common name Sheep
Organism Scientific Name Ovis sp.



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🏥 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Genetically Modified Organisms Approvals) Order 1998 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Genetically Modified Organisms, Approvals, Researcher approvals, Plant species, Containment categories
  • Neil Koevoet, Authorised person for trial site admission