‘Comprehensive quarantine’ for goat embryos
Legal argument over ownership of 475 Angora goat embryos on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour would not affect their quarantine, said a Ministry of Agriculture spokesman yesterday.
The group director for MAFQuaI, the Ministry’s business group which controls the importation and quarantine of embryos, Mr Royce Elliott, said a “full and comprehensive quarantine” would be maintained for five years.
A group of Australian breeders has threatened legal action over the ownership of the embryos, saying they paid $600,000 to finance the importation of the embryos from Africa, but they had been diverted to New Zealand instead.
A report in "The Press” yesterday said the embryos had been brought from South Africa to Zimbabwe, and were then taken to the Australian quarantine station on the Cocos Islands and on to New Zealand.
“Complete veterinary certification in relation to the embryos was provided by the Zimbabwe Veterinary Service in accordance with our requirements, which are fairly tough,” Mr Elliott said. MAFQuaI was aware that ownership of some of the embryos was in dispute, he said.
“Any such contest will be fought between teams of highly paid lawyers on each side of the Tasman. We don’t see ourselves as palying any part in that contest,” he said.
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