ERMA / EPA submissions
Reassessment EPA Actara - APP204312 (30/03/2023)
- APP204312 - All documents and submissions on Actara, active ingredient Thiamethoxam.
- GE Free submission on Actara. (16/01/2023) Thiamethoxam breakdown product clothianidin
- GE Free presentation at Hearing.
- Expert witness Dr Ngaire Hart presentation on Native Bees
Supporting documents
- Industrious Native Bees; a case study in Whangarei Dr. Ngaire Hira Hart (2007)
- Ignoring Adjuvant Toxicity Falsifies the Safety Profile of Commercial Pesticides. Mesnage R and Antoniou M.N (2018) Front. Public Health 5:361.
- Neonicotinoid contamination in wildflowers collected from citrus orchards in a northwestern Mediterranean region (Spain) after tree foliar treatments. García-Valcárcel, A.I. et al. (2022) Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(35), pp. 53482–53495.
- Ecotoxicological Studies on the Action of Actara 25 WG Insecticide on Prussian Carp (Carassius gibelio) and Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus). Paunescu, A., et al (2022), 10, 114.
- A common neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam, alters honey bee activity, motor functions, and movement to light. Tosi, S., Nieh, J.C. (2017) Rep 7, 15132.
Re-Assessment ERMA200223 (02/09/2021)
- APP: 204212 Reassessment committee decision refusing the reassessment of the GE animals by the EPA.
- APP: 204212 Staff report on the recommendation to the EPA reassessment committee.
- GE Free reassessment of ERMA200223 (12.3.21) GE Free reassessment highlights the failed outcomes and the inhumane sterile results of genetic engineering (GE) that include transgenic and genome deletion/insertion technologies on the cows and goats. GE Free is calling for the reassessment of the AgResearch experiments. GE Free NZ has through OIA and Annual reports been able to detail the poor outcomes.
Open Letter - Call for Reassessment on Glyphosate 5/11/2018
- Open Letter caling for a reassessment on communities and workers conditions when using Glyphosate Based Herbicides (GBH)
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Not Genetically Modified) Regulations - amendments
- The Ministers Press Release
- Report on submissions - matters raised in submissions which led to the Ministers amendment of regulations
- Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms not genetically modified) Amendment regulations 2016
ERMA200706 and ERMA 200792 Arabidopsis thaliana
- ERMA 200792 to import into containment GE Arabidopsis thaliana seed.
- ERMA200706 to develop in containment Arabidopsis thaliana plants
- GE Free NZ submission and power point
NZ Forest Research Institute (Scion)
- GE Free submission on GM pines ERMA200479 (2010)
- GMF 99001 re-assessment 67A
- Pine HGT study - 2002-03 and 2005-06. OIA
- Field Trial GM pines completed Te Putara14, p. 3
ERMA20023 (01/03/2010)
Re-Assessment ERMA200223 (27/03/2011)
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GE Free Re-assessment submission on ERMA200223. 67A
- Microbial Characterisation of Soil in the Offal pits at Agresearch 2004-2009. HGT study, recieved under OIA 2010.
- Evaluation of Horizontal Gene Transfer monitoring experiments conducted in New Zealand between 2004-2009. Jack Heinemann, Brigitta Kurenbach and Nikki Bleyendaal (2011) Journal of Organic Systems Vol:6 (1)
- AgResearch says that gene testing was in proportion to risk. TV3, 6th May 2011
- Jack Heinemann interview on Midday Rural news, National Radio 9th May 2011.
- Clarification on AgResearch statements made on National Radio by Professor Jack Heinemann
ERMA200421 (withdrawn 10/08/2010)
GMR07001-Genetically modified canarypox contained in equine influenza vaccine (18/11/2008)
- Evaluation and Review report GMR07001 GM Proteq flu vacine
- ERMA Decision on GM Proteq flu vaccine
GMD02028 (2002) -To develop transgenic cattle that can express functional therapeutic foreign proteins in their milk, and to develop transgenic cattle to study gene function and genetic performance. (see MADGE court case decision).
Select Committee Hearing on the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Bill
- GE Free Submission to the EPA Bill and reply from Select committee. 8/02/2011