New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 101

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✨ Genetically Modified Organisms Approvals



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 101

with native sheep, steps shall be taken to abort any possible resulting pregnancies;

  1. All quarantine and import requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries shall be met;

  2. All animals no longer required for breeding or quarantine purposes shall be disposed of on site, by incineration;

  3. PPL shall provide annual reports to the IAG, including a report on completion of the trial;

  4. Any establishment of a transgenic manufacturing flock shall be subject to a separate application;

  5. The IAG, or its successor may inspect the trial site by arrangement with the applicant;

Trial start date March 1997
Completion date October 2001
Post harvest monitoring completion date N/A

Trial Number 42

Project title Proposal for the controlled field trialing of Canola containing Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup Ready™ genes for glyphosate herbicide resistance

Approved 25 November 1996
Approved trial period November 1996-November 1997
Organism Common name Canola (Oil seed rape)
Organism Scientific Name Brassica napus L.
Brassica rapa L.
Modified by: Round up Ready™ genes for glyphosate herbicide resistance
Locations of field trial Pukeuri, North Otago
Institution / Company Zeneca Seeds Inc. Canada
Institution / Company N. Rampton, Pacific Seeds Pty Ltd, New Zealand
Contact(s) M. Lewis, Breeder Seed Agronomist, Zeneca Seeds Inc, Canada
B. Patchett, Cropmark, Ashburton

Conditions on approval

  1. The approval is for a single field trial to be performed in the 1996/97 growing season. Separate approval will be required for any subsequent field trial;

  2. Only persons authorised by the trial manager shall be admitted to the trial site;

  3. The total crop area of the trial shall be no more than 0.5 hectares;

  4. The canola plots shall be contained within isolation tents, designed to stop the escape of seed by preventing the entry of birds and rodents;

  5. Tents shall include rodent resistant skirts buried at least 30 cm into the ground;



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  • N. Rampton, Contact for Pacific Seeds Pty Ltd
  • M. Lewis, Breeder Seed Agronomist, Zeneca Seeds Inc
  • B. Patchett, Cropmark, Ashburton