This document describes the charging system to recover programme costs applying to primary processors of fish and bivalve molluscan shellfish (BMS shellfish).

This guidance is to assist with the implementation and validation of new marine biotoxin test methods.

This is a revised version of the Animal Products Official Assurances Programme, which now excludes all parts of the previous programme that had been transferred over to the Animal Products (Official Assurances Specifications) Notice 2013.

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) administers the Animal Products Act 1999
and its associated legislation.
The Animal Products Act 1999 has the objective of managing and minimising the risks to
human and animal health from the production and processing of animal material and
products, and of facilitating overseas market access.

The Fish Export Processing Regulations, First Schedule to the Regulations, Part II clase 22, states:
"All fish premises shall have in place an approved quality control programme that provides for-