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Care Association of NZ Food Control Plan section 40 application

UPDATE – 17 December 2018

A summary of submission received during the consultation is available to download.

What was proposed?

The Care Association of New Zealand (CANZ) requested approval of its food safety manual (a model Food Control Plan) under section 40 of the Food Act 2014. The CANZ manual set out procedures for managing hazards in a food service setting for aged care facilities.

The CANZ Plan is tailored specifically for CANZ members.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) evaluated CANZ’s Plan to ensure it met the requirements of the Food Act 2014 and allowed for aged care facilities to prepare and serve safe and suitable food.

MPI sought your feedback about the application.

The consultation ran from 6 April 2018 until 5pm on 23 April 2018.

Consultation document

The CANZ template is available only to CANZ members. However, you can download MPI’s evaluation of the CANZ template.

Background to consultation

The Food Act 2014, which came into effect in March 2016, introduced a risk-based approach to managing food safety. Food Control Plans (FCPs) are written plans that identify food safety risks and set out how they will be managed on a day-to-day basis.

The Food Act 2014 requires that food business operators take responsibility for ensuring food is safe and suitable. Businesses need to be aware of the risks and be able to show how they are managing these. Section 40 of the Food Act 2014 allows MPI’s chief executive to approve a template or model FCP which has been developed outside of MPI.

This allows food businesses or industry groups to:

  • develop their own food control plans and have them approved so that each business using the plan does not need to submit its plan for individual evaluation
  • make adjustments to the MPI templates to include multi-site or multi-business specific procedures or practices, or to reflect common language/terminology used in the business and have those changes approved.

Submissions are public information

Note, that any submission you make becomes public information. People can ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we have to make submissions available unless we have a good reason for withholding it (refer to sections 6 and 9 of the OIA).

Tell us if you think there are grounds to withhold specific information in your submission. Reasons might include that it's commercially sensitive or it's personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold information can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may tell us to release it.

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