New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 101

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✨ Genetically Modified Organisms Notices



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Trial start date November 1997
Completion date March 1998
Post harvest monitoring completion date 31 March 1998

Trial Number 60
Project title Field test of genetically modified canola
Application approved 27 November 1997
Approved trial period November 1997–November 1998
Organism Common name Canola (Oil seed rape)
Organism Scientific Name Brassica napus L. and Brassica rapa L.
Aims To produce Roundup Ready canola seed for planting in Canada in the 1998 season.
Modified by: Monsanto Roundup Ready™ genes for tolerance of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide
Locations of field trial Hendley Block, Shands Road, Lincoln
Institution / Company Zeneca Seeds Inc. Canada
Institution / Company Contact(s) N. Rampton on behalf of Zeneca Seeds Inc. Canada
B. Patchett, Cropmark, Ashburton

Conditions on approval

  1. The approval is for a single field trial to be performed between November 1997 and November 1998;

  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 0.36 hectares;

  4. Pollen, bird, rodent and insect proof tents shall be erected over trial plots prior to flowering;

  5. The tent skirts shall be buried 10 cm into the ground and a further 20cm of soil shall be placed on top;

  6. The tents shall be monitored daily to check their integrity is maintained;

  7. Beehives and rodent baits shall be placed within the tents. The beehives shall not be removed from tents until tests show the pollen is no longer viable;

  8. The harvest and processing of all seed shall occur on site, within the pollen tents. No plant material may be taken off-site for processing;

  9. The applicant shall fumigate the each tent site, tent corridors and bars soil buffers using Basamid, immediately following the incineration of plant material, to destroy residual seed remaining after harvest. The soil shall remain undisturbed for at least three weeks;

  10. The trial site and a 400m radius isolation zone shall be monitored for four years following harvest, or for one year after no new canola seedlings appear;

  11. Weedy brassicas plants and canola seedlings found during post harvest monitoring shall be destroyed by herbicide or removed;

  12. The IAG, its representatives, or its successor may at reasonable



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Genetically Modified Organisms, Field Trial, Canola, Herbicide Resistance, Monitoring Completion
  • N. Rampton, Contact for Zeneca Seeds Inc. Canada
  • B. Patchett, Contact for Cropmark, Ashburton