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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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Surplus transgenic trees from the trial must be clearly labelled
and kept in a secure greenhouse facility or must be destroyed by mechanical
means, heating or burning. Composting of this material is not an acceptable
destruction method.
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The trial term will be limited to ten (10) years from the date of
commencement.
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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.
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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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Two guard rows must be composed of non-transformed poplar (Populus
deltoides x trichocarpa) producing no or very few suckers.
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The trial material (including the guard rows) will be separated
by a distance of at least 15 meters from other trees of the same related
species. The trial site and isolation distance must be monitored, at a minimum,
twice a week during the period of flowering and budburst and, at a minimum,
monthly during the growing season of the trail period to ensure that all
suckers, precocious inflorescences and trees of same or related species that are
not part of the trial are removed and destroyed.
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During the trial period, all precocious inflorescences (if any)
must be removed each year before the anthesis to prevent pollen dissemination
and seed setting. Records must be kept of the date and number of flowering
catkins removed from each genetic line.
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Markers must be placed at all corners of the trial site to
identify the confined field trial boundaries. The markers (e.g. flags, corner
posts, etc.) 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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Distance measurements from permanent surrounding landmarks must
be provided for precise location of the site. Also, 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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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 maintenance equipment will be cleaned of all
residual plant material at the trial site prior to being moved to other
locations.
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Plant material harvested from the confined research field trial, 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.
Plant material harvested from the confined research field trial may only be
retained if requested in the application and authorized by the PBO. Any
harvested plant material must be clearly labelled, securely transported, and
stored separately from other plant material.
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Applicants must provide the PBO in writing within 15 working days after
harvest with information on:
- quantity of plant material harvested at the trial site
- date(s) of harvest
- quantity of plant material disposed of
- location, method and date of disposal
- quantity of plant material retained and stored
- storage location and method
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The trees (including guard rows) must be cut down at the end of
the trial period. Plant matter remaining at the end of the trial must be
destroyed. Stumps and root systems must either be mechanically destroyed on site
or removed and destroyed. The trial site must be tilled and any developing
suckers after tillage must be destroyed. The applicant 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 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
Directive 2000-07.
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The trial site must not be used to grow poplar trees from the
date of termination of the trial until no suckers are observed for three (3)
consecutive years. The site must be monitored, at a minimum, monthly during the
post-harvest growing seasons to ensure that all volunteer plants, suckers and
related species are removed and destroyed.
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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.