The TSE surveillance submission form [PDF, 185 KB]
If you have questions, email TSEsurveillance@mpi.govt.nz
Incentives are available for vets and farmers who support New Zealand's surveillance programme for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Find everything you need to get started.
The TSE surveillance submission form [PDF, 185 KB]
If you have questions, email TSEsurveillance@mpi.govt.nz
Euthanise the animal and follow our guide to prepare the sample.
Download the guide to preparing a TSE sample [PDF, 593 KB]
If you send the whole head rather than just the brain, MPI will deduct these amounts:
Request information on bovine brain removal from TSEsurveillance@mpi.govt.nz.
Find out where to send the sample and download a submission form.
Fill out the TSE surveillance submission form and submit it with the sample to any of the labs below.
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Auckland |
Gribbles Veterinary Pathology Phone: 09 574 4701 |
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Hamilton |
Gribbles Veterinary Pathology Phone: 07 850 0777 |
New Zealand Veterinary Pathology Phone: 07 839 1470 |
SVS Laboratories Limited PO Box 10304, Te Rapa Phone: 07 444 5101 |
Palmerston North |
Gribbles Veterinary Pathology Phone: 06 356 7100 |
New Zealand Veterinary Pathology IVABS Building 1st Floor, Massey University Tennant Drive Phone: 06 353 3983 |
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Christchurch | Gribbles Veterinary Pathology 7 Halkett Street Phone: 03 379 9484 |
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Dunedin | Gribbles Veterinary Pathology Invermay Campus Block A, Puddle Alley Mosgiel Phone: 03 489 4600 |
See where to send lab results and invoices – for farmers and vets.
To receive payment, the vet submitting the samples needs to email the following documents to accountspayable@mpi.govt.nz:
To make it easy, MPI will send a sample invoice to farmers, who can sign and return the invoice to MPI for payment. Samples disqualified by the lab for quality reasons won't be paid.
TSE surveillance manager
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6011
MPI performs TSE surveillance to assure New Zealand's export customers that we're free from TSEs. We test brain samples from cows, sheep, goats and deer that show clinical neurological signs.
Our surveillance programme complies with the requirements of the World Organisation of Animal Health. In keeping with those requirements, the following animals can be tested in the absence of other obvious causes of disease.
Aged between 30 months and 9 years, with any of the following presentations:
Aged 2 years or older and showing signs of progressive non-responsive nervous disease.
Aged 2 years or older, showing signs of:
If your animals show these signs and you don’t have access to a vet, call our pest and disease hotline on 0800 80 99 66.
MPI compensates farmers for the loss of their animals, and vets for their time and labour in taking and submitting brain samples.
We don't accept more than 2 samples a year from any one farm. If you believe more cases should be investigated, call the pest and disease hotline on 0800 80 99 66.
If you have questions about information on this page, email TSEsurveillance@mpi.govt.nz
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