Acknowledgements

Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council would like to thank the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia for permission to use its publication Animal-to-human Transplantation Research: A guide for the community, Public consultation on xenotransplantation 2003/04, which has been drawn on extensively in the preparation of this document. Copyright Commonwealth of Australia reproduced by permission.

We would like to thank the New Zealand Ministry of Health for permission to use its material on international approaches to xenotransplantation regulation, which is included here as an appendix.

We express our grateful thanks to those people in different parts of New Zealand who discussed these issues with various Council members, giving us their time and the benefits of their knowledge and experience in xenotransplantation, human diseases, animal welfare and ethics, and risk analysis.

Our thanks go also to those who generously gave their time to peer review this document. Not withstanding that valuable assistance, the responsibility for both the content and style belongs to Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council.

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