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Your submitted request:

Dear Waikato Regional Council, What types of cereals or blends of cereals
are used in prefeed and in poison baits used by the Regional Council
and/or its contractors in its pest management programmes? What is the
country of origin of these cereals in the baits used by the WRC or their
contracters? Please describe the routine testing control regime to
determine the quality of cereal used in prefeed and/or in poison baits
that you use? Which authority do you go to for any tests or quality
control of cereal used in pre-feed and/or 1080 or brodifacoum poison
baits? How does the Waikato Regional Council ensure that the cereal
components in the toxic baits used by the Council or contractors do not
contain spores or other biosecurity risks ? What peer reviewed research or
other information does the Waikato Regional Council rely on for the
scientific assessment of toxic bait cereals and their potential
contamination with fungal spores, including aflatoxins and phytophthera?
Please give results of any cereal testing programmes carried out on the
toxic baits used by the Council or your pest control contractors over the
last 3 years, the methodology used and the organisation carrying out the
tests. Yours faithfully, Stephanie McKee

Thank you

Waikato Regional Council

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Good Morning Stephanie

Thank you for your query, however Waikato Regional Council does not hold
the information that you have requested and are unable to assist you with
this query.

Kind Regards
Amanda

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Your submitted request:

Dear Waikato Regional Council, How does the Waikato Regional Council
ensure that the cereal components in the toxic baits used by the Council
or contractors do not contain spores or other biosecurity risks ? Yours
faithfully, S C McKee

Thank you

Waikato Regional Council

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Good Afternoon S C McKee

We note that we did respond to your request yesterday via email please
refer to that response in regards to this query also.

Kind Regards

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REF190404574.

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[1]0800 800 401 and provide your reference number.

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If life or property is at risk, please call [2]111.

Your submitted request:

Dear Information Request - Info, Thank you for your reply. Yes I re - sent
one question, thinking maybe you missed seeing it. Are you confirming that
you have answered the following question: How does the Waikato Regional
Council ensure that the cereal components in the toxic baits used by the
Council or contractors do not contain spores or other biosecurity risks ?
Are you confirming by saying "that you have no information" on that
question, that the WRC has no method to ensure that the cereals do not
contain spores or other biosecurity risks? As you will be aware, the
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, Section 7, states;
Precautionary approach All persons exercising functions, powers, and
duties under this Act including, but not limited to, functions, powers,
and duties under sections 28A, 29, 32, 38, 45, and 48, shall take into
account the need for caution in managing adverse effects where there is
scientific and technical uncertainty about those effects. If there is no
testing of the cereal in the VTAs to ensure they are free of toxic fungi
and any specie of Phytophthera for example, then it would appear that
Section 7 of the HSNO Act is being breached. My question is not frivoulous
or vexatious, but a serious question which I would appreciate you
answering, under the IOA. Yours sincerely, S C McKee

Thank you

Waikato Regional Council

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Dear Stephanie,

All the VTA products used by our contractors are supplied by manufacturers
approved under the Agricultural and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act 1997.

As part of the ACVM approval process the manufacturer must have been Good
Manufacturing Practice (GMP) approved. GMP is that part of a quality
assurance which ensures that products are consistently produced and
controlled to the quality standards appropriate to their intended use and
as required by the manufacturing authorisation. As part of the GMP process
the manufacturer must show they have processes in place that ensure
consistently high quality ingredients are used and production operations
follow clearly defined procedures. Additionally, samples from each batch
produced must be held for later testing where there may be concerns about
the product’s quality. The Ministry for Primary Industries audits approved
manufacturers regularly to ensure they continue to meet the GMP approval
conditions.

Additionally as part of every application to register a VTA, the
registrant must provide evidence that any ingredients of biological origin
must be covered by an import health standard, or undergo a biosecurity
risk assessment.

If you have any further questions, please direct these to the VTA
manufacturers.

Regards,

Waikato Regional Council

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