Pursuant to section 14 (1) of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997, the Director-General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry hereby gives notice that the following application has been made to register a trade name product under section 9 (1) of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997:
Trade Name: Profender
Reference: A009546
Active Ingredients and Concentrations:
Praziquantel – 85.75g/kg
Emodepside – 21.43g/kg
General Use Claim: For the treatment and control of intestinal parasites in cats including:
Roundworms – mature, immature and larval (L3 and L4) stages of Toxocara cati, and mature, immature and larval (L4) stages of Toxascaris leonine
Hookworm – Uncinaria stenocephala*, including larval (L4) and immature stages
Tapeworms – mature and immature stages of Dipylidium caninum, Taenia taeniaeformis.
Any person may make a written submission to the Director-General, under section 17 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997, concerning any application notified above.
Such submissions:
(a) must state in full the reasons for making the submission;
(b) may state any decision sought on that application;
(c) must be received by the Director-General no later than 30 working days after the date of notification in the New Zealand Gazette; and
(d) should be forwarded to the address given below.
A copy of every submission will be forwarded to the applicant for its information.
The address below is:
(a) where submissions and requests for copies of the public information relating to the application can be sent;
(b) where the public information relating to the application can be viewed; and
(c) the Director-General’s address for service:
ACVM Group, New Zealand Food Safety Authority, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, 68-86 Jervois Quay
(P.O. Box 2835), Wellington.
The applicant’s address for service is:
Bayer New Zealand Limited, C.P.O. Box 2825, Auckland.
Dated at Wellington this 27th day of May 2005.
MAREE ZINZLEY, Programme Manager (Operations) (acting under delegated authority).
*Not clinically significant in New Zealand.