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Category of seed potato | | Minimum requirements by category |
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1 produced in New Brunswick | | (a) to be accompanied by a certificate number given under the Seeds Act or otherwise by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, |
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| | (a.1) to be seed potatoes of the class Foundation or a higher class of seed potatoes, and |
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| | (b) Repealed: 2005-110 |
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| | (c) if the Minister has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the seed potatoes may be infected with a disease that poses a threat to the quality or marketability of potatoes grown in New Brunswick, to have passed such testing for that disease as the Minister may stipulate. |
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2 produced in Canada but outside New Brunswick | | (a) to be accompanied by a certificate number given under the Seeds Act or otherwise by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, |
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| | (a.1) to be seed potatoes of the class Foundation or a higher class of seed potatoes, |
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| | (b) Repealed: 2005-110 |
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| | (c) to have been produced by a farm unit with no history, directly or indirectly, of bacterial ring rot (BRR) and no history of potato spindle tuber (PSTVd), for at least four consecutive years immediately before the year of production, and |
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| | (d) if the Minister has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the seed potatoes may be infected with a disease that poses a threat to the quality or marketability of potatoes grown in New Brunswick, to have passed such testing for that disease as the Minister may stipulate. |
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3 produced in the United States of America, other than breeders’ seed | | (a) to be accompanied by documentation satisfactory to the Minister indicating that the lot has passed testing for bacterial ring rot (BRR) and potato spindle tuber (PSTVd), |
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| | (b) to have been certified by a recognized certification agency of a state of the United States of America, based on requirements that the Minister is satisfied are substantively equivalent to those established for those potatoes under the Seeds Act, |
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| | (b.1) to be seed potatoes of a class determined by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to be equivalent to the class Foundation or a higher class of seed potatoes, |
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| | (c) to be accompanied by an import permit issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, |
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| | (d) except for seed potatoes of the class nuclear stock or seed potatoes to be planted in registration trials, research plots or home gardens, to be accompanied by post-harvest virus test readings indicating that the lot has passed the testing, |
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| | (e) to have been produced by a farm unit with no history of bacterial ring rot (BRR) and no history of potato spindle tuber (PSTVd), for at least four consecutive years immediately before the year of production, and |
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| | (f) if the Minister has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the seed potatoes may be infected with a disease that poses a threat to the quality or marketability of potatoes grown in New Brunswick, to have passed such testing for that disease as the Minister may stipulate. |
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4 breeders’ seed to be planted on a farm unit different from the farm unit where produced | | (a) Repealed: 2005-110 (b) to have passed testing for potato spindle tuber (PSTVd), and |
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| | (c) if the Minister has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the seed potatoes may be infected with a disease that poses a threat to the quality or marketability of potatoes grown in New Brunswick, to have passed such testing for that disease as the Minister may stipulate. |
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5 seed potatoes that do not meet all the minimum requirements of any of categories 1 to 4 | | (a) to have passed any testing that the Minister may require, and (b) to have been approved in advance for planting for the purpos and in the place stipulated by the Minister. |