Dear Mr Stratford

I would like to acknowledge receipt of your email and will forward to Dr Anne Bardsley and Megan Stunzner who are dealing with this matter.

Kind regards

OPMCSA

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Stratford <[FOI #8336 email]>
Sent: Monday, 16 July 2018 1:15 PM
To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor <[Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Communications with overseas jurisdictions relating to meth residues in property

Dear Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor,

Please provide copies of the communications sent by research staff during preparation of the PMCSA Meth Report to overseas jurisdictions, which relate to how guidelines and regulations that exist in those jurisdiction are applied to methamphetamine residues in property arising from use and or manufacture of methamphetamine.

Please provide copies of the responses received from these jurisdiction.

Yours faithfully,

Miles Stratford

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Dear Mr Stratford

 

Questions around the use of guidelines came up during discussions with
various experts during the course of our research, but we hold only one
email pertaining to your request - see attached.

 

Regards

 

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Phone: +64 (9) 923 6318

 

NB: the email address [1][Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor request email] will shortly become invalid.
Correspondence for the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor should be
therefore be sent to [2][email address]

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Miles Stratford <[3][FYI request #8336 email]>

Sent: Monday, 16 July 2018 1:15 PM

To: OIA/LGOIMA requests at Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science
Advisor <[4][Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor request email]>

Subject: Official Information request - Communications with overseas
jurisdictions relating to meth residues in property

   

Dear Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor,

   

Please provide copies of the communications sent by research staff during
preparation of the PMCSA Meth Report to overseas jurisdictions, which
relate to how guidelines and regulations that exist in those jurisdiction
are applied to methamphetamine residues in property arising from use and
or manufacture of methamphetamine.

   

Please provide copies of the responses received from these jurisdiction.

   

Yours faithfully,

   

Miles Stratford

  

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Dear Mr Stratford

 

Your query is asking for our office to provide an explanation - this is
not covered by the OIA.

 

Although we are not obligated to do so, we provide a brief response below.
Please note that your queries are now being charged at the rate of $38 per
half hour, as outlined in our email of 19 July.

 

Q:

" I understood that the research proposal by the PMCSA Office was to
involve a thorough review of international best practice as far as
Standards and Guidelines is concerned."

 

A:

You understood incorrectly. We were asked to look into the available
scientific evidence on the risks to occupants of houses previously used
for methamphetamine production and/or use, and how levels of contamination
translate to potential exposure and levels of risk, and what this means in
the context of the current situation in NZ. Please see our response to
your request for correspondence with Minister Twyford's office for the
specific outline of the review (letter dated 15 December, 2017).

 

Q:

"On what basis did the Office of the PMCSA reach the conclusions that no
overseas jurisdictions adopted the same levels for meth residues deposited
by meth use as those adopted for residues from meth manufacture?"

 

A: The conclusion is based on thorough reading of overseas guidelines and
discussions with overseas contacts.

 

Regards

 

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Phone: +64 (9) 923 6318

 

NB: the email address [1][Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor request email] will shortly become invalid.
Correspondence for the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor should be
therefore be sent to [2][email address]

 

 

 

    -----Original Message-----

    From: Miles Stratford
<[3][FOI #8336 email]>

    Sent: Friday, 27 July 2018 12:05 PM

    To: Office of the PM's Chief Science Advisor <[4][Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor request email]>

    Subject: Re: Official Information request - Communications with
overseas jurisdictions relating to meth residues in property

   

    Dear Office of the PM's Chief Science Advisor,

   

    Thank you for your timely response to this request. I understood that
the research proposal by the PMCSA Office was to involve a thorough review
of international best practice as far as Standards and Guidelines is
concerned. Yet there is only correspondence with one overseas
jurisdiction.

   

    Written enquiry of representatives of responsible agencies in
California, Colorado and Utah, identify that thees jurisdictions treat
meth residues from use in the same way as meth residues form manufacture

   

    On what basis did the Office of the PMCSA reach the conclusions that
no overseas jurisdictions adopted the same levels for meth residues
deposited by meth use as those adopted for residues from meth manufacture?

   

    Yours sincerely,

   

    Miles Stratford

   

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    Dear Mr Stratford

   

      

    

     Questions around the use of guidelines came up during discussions
with  various experts during the course of our research, but we hold only
one  email pertaining to your request - see attached.

   

      

    

     Regards

   

      

    

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     Phone: +64 (9) 923 6318

   

      

    

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Dear Mr Stratford

 

The writers are listed in the Report, a link to which can be found
[1]here.

 

Please note that your queries are now being charged at the rate of $38
per  half hour, as outlined in our email of 19 July.

 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Miles Stratford <[2][FYI request #8336 email]>

Sent: Monday, 30 July 2018 10:53 AM

To: Office of the PM's Chief Science Advisor <[3][Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor request email]>

Subject: Re: Official Information request 27 July 2018 - Communications
with overseas jurisdictions relating to meth residues in property

 

Dear Office of the PM's Chief Science Advisor,

 

Thanks for that advice.

 

The synopsis of research presented to Phil Twyford indicated a science
writer would be contracted. Which science writer/s was/were contracted to
craft the PMCSA Meth Report?

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Miles Stratford

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Dear Mr Stratford

 

 

 

Your query is asking for our office to provide an explanation - this is 
not covered by the OIA.

 

 

 

Although we are not obligated to do so, we provide a brief response below.

Please note that your queries are now being charged at the rate of $38
per  half hour, as outlined in our email of 19 July.

 

 

 

Q:

 

" I understood that the research proposal by the PMCSA Office was to 
involve a thorough review of international best practice as far as 
Standards and Guidelines is concerned."

 

 

 

A:

 

You understood incorrectly. We were asked to look into the available 
scientific evidence on the risks to occupants of houses previously used 
for methamphetamine production and/or use, and how levels of
contamination  translate to potential exposure and levels of risk, and
what this means in  the context of the current situation in NZ. Please see
our response to  your request for correspondence with Minister Twyford's
office for the  specific outline of the review (letter dated 15 December,
2017).

 

 

 

Q:

 

"On what basis did the Office of the PMCSA reach the conclusions that no 
overseas jurisdictions adopted the same levels for meth residues
deposited  by meth use as those adopted for residues from meth
manufacture?"

 

 

 

A: The conclusion is based on thorough reading of overseas guidelines and 
discussions with overseas contacts.

 

 

 

Regards

 

 

 

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Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor

 

Phone: +64 (9) 923 6318

 

 

 

NB: the email address [1][Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science
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therefore be sent to [2][email address]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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