Media Release
6 November 2009
The Environmental Risk Management Authority is calling for submissions on an application by AgResearch to conduct GM research on goats, sheep and cows in containment at its Ruakura research facility.
The research aims to learn more about gene function, milk composition and disease resistance.
It will focus on proteins important in human therapeutics and animal disease.
The application is now open for submission.
New Organisms Applications Manager Asela Atapattu says the application is for research in containment and is subject to full public consultation.
Submissions are now closed.
For further information, contact:
Sarah Kenward, Senior Communications Advisor, ERMA New Zealand.
• Telephone +64 -4 -918 4813 • Mobile 021 976 853
• Facsimile +64- 4 -914 0433 • sarah.kenward@ermanz.govt.nz
Last Updated Dec 2009