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- Outdoor activities
- Boating and watersports tips to prevent spread of pests
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- Gardening: Finding and reporting pests
- Holding an outdoor event: tips to prevent spread of pests
- Hunting and gathering: biosecurity and food safety
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- Learn more about biosecurity
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- What is organic food?
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- Apricot kernels and apple and pear seeds
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- Getting started in dairy
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- Introduction to storage, transport, and wharves
- Which way? Find out how to manage food safety risks if you're a food transporter
- Transport operator food safety
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- Transporting animal products for export
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- Introduction to labelling and composition requirements
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- Foods exempt from labelling
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- Specific product labelling
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- Export
- Exporting from NZ: how it works
- Meeting NZ standards for export
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- Brexit and what it means for New Zealand’s primary industries
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- Steps to exporting honey and bee products
- 1. Honey and bee product exports – New Zealand requirements
- 2. Check destination market requirements for honey exports
- 3. Register as a honey and bee products exporter
- 4. Register for E-cert for honey exports
- 5. Apply for an export certificate for honey
- Honey export non-conformance
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- Import
- Importing into NZ: how it works
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- Biosecurity
- About biosecurity in New Zealand
- Why we want to keep pests and diseases out of NZ
- MPI's role in biosecurity
- Government Industry Agreement: Biosecurity
- Biosecurity 2025
- 'Surveillance' biosecurity magazine
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- 1080 blackmail threat
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- National Policy Direction for Pest Management
- International Year of Plant Health 2020
- Biosecurity Business Pledge
- Find, report, and prevent pests and diseases
- Report a pest or disease
- Search for a pest or disease
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- Biosecurity on your farm
- Lifestyle block biosecurity
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- Registers and lists for pests and diseases
- Handling unwanted organisms: getting permission
- Pest management partnerships, programmes, and accords
- Major pest and disease threats
- Pests and diseases we want to keep out of NZ
- About the priority pests and diseases list
- Alphabetical list of priority pests and diseases
- Horticultural pests and diseases
- Aster yellows phytoplasma
- Avocado sunblotch disease
- Bacterial leaf scorch
- Bacterial soft rot
- Black rot
- Brown marmorated stink bug
- Citrus longhorn beetle
- Columnea latent viroid (CLVd)
- Flavescence dorée of grapevine
- Kanzawa spider mite
- Laurel wilt and the Asian ambrosia beetle
- Maize lethal necrosis disease
- Medfly (Mediterranean fruit fly)
- Melon fly
- Oriental fruit fly
- Painted apple moth
- Pea early-browning virus
- Pea weevil
- Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd)
- Psa – new strains (kiwifruit vine canker)
- Queensland fruit fly
- Red imported fire ant
- Ryegrass bunt
- Serpentine leaf miner
- South American fruit fly
- Spotted lanternfly
- Spotted wing drosophila
- Texas root rot
- Tomato apical stunt viroid (TASVd)
- Tomato torrado disease
- Violet root rot
- Wheat stem rust Ug99
- Freshwater pests and diseases
- Ocean pests and diseases
- Asian brown mussel
- Asian shore crab
- Bacterial kidney disease in finfish
- Caulerpa
- Chinese mitten crab
- European shore crab
- Furunculosis
- Infectious pancreatic necrosis
- Infectious salmon anaemia disease
- Marteiliosis
- Mikrocytosis
- Northern Pacific seastar
- Red sea bream iridoviral disease
- Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
- Withering abalone syndrome
- Pastoral pests and diseases
- Tree pests and diseases
- Asian longhorn beetle
- Ceratocystis wilt
- Daño foliar del pino
- Dothistroma needle blight
- European pine shoot moth
- Gypsy moth
- Mountain pine bark beetle
- Nun moth
- Painted apple moth
- Pine pitch canker
- Pine processionary moth
- Pine shoot beetle
- Pinewood nematode carried by the sawyer beetle
- Sudden oak death
- Western gall rust
- Mycoplasma bovis eradication
- Long-term biosecurity management programmes
- Kauri dieback disease control
- Myrtle rust tree disease control
- Bonamia ostreae parasite control in oysters
- Velvetleaf weed management
- Wilding conifer control in NZ
- Wild rabbit control in NZ
- Protecting pet rabbits from caliciviruses
- Wallabies in NZ: controlling their numbers
- Johnson grass
- Emerging threats
- Other pest management programmes
- National Interest Pest Responses programme
- Biosecurity border clearance
- Detector Dogs
- Plans for responding to serious disease outbreaks
- Bee biosecurity
- Foot-and-mouth disease response plans
- Foot-and-mouth disease readiness
- Advice to farmers and livestock owners about FMD
- Signs of foot-and-mouth disease: Information for vets
- Foot-and-mouth information for meat, livestock, and dairy workers
- Foot and mouth: Consuming meat and dairy
- How would an outbreak of foot-and-mouth affect NZ?
- About foot-and-mouth disease
- Keeping foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease out of New Zealand
- Response to FMD
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) response plans
- Freshwater pests and diseases
- Marine pest and disease management
- Forestry pests and diseases
- About biosecurity in New Zealand
- Animals
- Animal welfare
- Animal welfare overview
- Animal welfare regulations
- Codes of animal welfare
- Safeguarding our Animals, Safeguarding our Reputation
- Animals in emergencies
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- Review of livestock exports
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- Animal welfare and pest management
- National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme
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- Foot-and-mouth disease response plans
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- What is a veterinary medicine under the ACVM Act 1997?
- ACVM guidance for veterinarians
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- Treating your own animals with veterinary medicines
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- ACVMs exempt from registration
- Adverse events with ACVMs
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- Animal feed: preventing disease transfer
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- Exporting live animals
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- What is an ACVM?
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