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The applicant must ensure that the trial seed and/or plant
material are transported in clearly identified, secure containers and are kept
separate from other seed and/or plant material.
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Seeding, transplanting and site maintenance machinery and
equipment must be cleaned at the trial site to prevent dispersal of plant
material. Surplus seed or seedlings, and any plant material remaining after
transplantation, that is to be destroyed, will be disposed of by autoclaving,
burning, or burial at a depth of one metre. Composting of this material is not
an acceptable destruction method.
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In the case of accidental release, recoverable seeds or
seedlings must be collected and destroyed, the site must be marked and
monitored, and the PBO
notified immediately. Plants from unrecoverable seed or seedlings must be
mechanically or chemically destroyed.
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Safflower plants in the trial must be reproductively isolated
from other safflower plants by a minimum distance of 800 metres. And must be
isolated from safflower seed production by 1600 metres.
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No food or feed production including livestock grazing is
permitted within 50m of the trial during the growing season of the trial.
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Measurements from permanent surrounding landmarks must be
provided for precise location of the site. Markers must also be placed at all
corners of the trial site to identify the confined field trial boundaries. The
markers must be obvious, identifiable and in place for the growing seasons of
both the trial and the post-harvest restriction period.
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Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates must be taken
precisely at all corners of each trial site. The GPS coordinates of each confined research
field trial site location must be submitted to the PBO within 7 days after planting.
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If a chemical treatment is used on the trial site that requires
a time until safe entry, a sign must be posted at the access to the trial
indicating the date and time of spraying as well as the time until safe entry.
This condition is intended to protect the health and safety of the CFIA inspection staff.
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During the trial growing season the trial site, including the
surrounding isolation distance, must be monitored at least weekly to ensure
that all related species are removed.
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No plant material from these trials may enter the human food or
livestock feed chain unless approved by Health Canada or the Feeds Section,
CFIA,
respectively.
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Harvesting machinery and equipment will be cleaned of all
residual plant material at the trial site prior to being moved to other
locations. Plant material harvested, that is not to be retained, must be
destroyed by burning, autoclaving, or burial to a depth of one metre.
Composting of this material is not an acceptable destruction method.
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Harvested seed and/or propagable plant material from the
confined research field trial may only be retained if requested in the
application and authorized by the PBO. Any harvested seed and/or plant
material must be clearly labelled, securely transported, and stored separately
from other seed and/or plant material.
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Applicants must provide the PBO in writing within 15 working days after
harvest with information on:
- quantity of seed and/or plant material harvested at the trial sites
- date(s) of harvest
- quantity of seed and/or plant material disposed of
- location, method and date of disposal
- quantity of seed and/or plant material retained and stored
- storage location and method
Disposal of plant material (propagable and/or non-propagable) includes
harvested plant material as well as residual plant material on the trial
site.
If a trial is destroyed prior to harvest applicants must provide the
PBO in writing within 15
working days after destruction with information on the trial’s growth
stage at the time of destruction, as well as the date and method of
destruction.
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A detailed trial log book must be kept. Records of the confined
research field trial, including current season and post-harvest site
monitoring, activities related to the trial site compliance, cleaning of
machinery, transportation, disposition and storage of all surplus seed and
harvested seed and plant material, must be maintained by the applicant and made
available to the CFIA upon request. A report
summarizing the completed trial and experimental data, including any amendments
to the original protocol, must also be made available to the CFIA upon request. Detailed records
requirements can be found in section 3.8 of Regulatory Directive 2000-07.
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Seed or other propagable plant material from the confined
research field trial must be harvested unless otherwise approved by the
PBO. Plants must be harvested
before full maturity to minimize silique shattering and seed dispersal. All
plant residue remaining on the trial site must be soil incorporated or
destroyed by incineration as soon as possible after harvest. Applicants are
encouraged to destroy all non-propagable (residual) plant material in a manner
whereby the material is not easily distributed by wind or local fauna yet does
not promote seed dormancy. If the applicant decides to burn the plant material,
incineration must be complete. A CFIA inspector must witness this
destruction. Applicants must notify the CFIA in advance to make the
arrangements.
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The trial site, including a minimum 10 metre zone (50 metre if a
large combine or combination was used during harvest) around the trial site,
must not be used to grow safflower for two years following harvest of the
trial. During the two post-trial growing seasons the trial site, including the
10 metre zone, must be monitored at least once every two weeks to ensure that
all volunteer plants are removed before flowering.
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Applicants must notify the PBO in writing of crop species planted on
trial sites for each year the sites are subject to post-harvest restriction.
This notification must be received every year by June 15.