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Consultation on the draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements

Have your say

New Zealand Food Safety is consulting on the draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements. This draft notice consolidates and replaces 2 animal products notices:

This consultation opened on 12 May and closes on 9 June 2023.

Consultation documents

Discussion Document: Official Assurance Requirements Consultation [PDF, 262 KB]

Draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 624 KB]

Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Dairy Material and Dairy Products [PDF, 537 KB]

Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Animal Material and Animal Products [PDF, 633 KB]

Technical tracking document: Official Assurances Specifications for Dairy Material and Dairy Products to Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 1.1 MB]

Technical tracking document: Official Assurances Specifications for Animal Material and Animal Products to Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 821 KB]

Making a submission

Email your feedback on the draft notice by 5pm on 9 June 2023 to Food.Assurance@mpi.govt.nz

While we prefer email, you can post written submissions to:

Food and Live Animal Assurance Team
Assurance Directorate
New Zealand Food Safety
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington, 6140.

Make sure you tell us in your submission:

  • the title of the consultation document (Draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements)
  • your name and title
  • your organisation's name (if you are submitting on behalf of an organisation, and whether your submission represents the whole organisation or a section of it)
  • your contact details (such as phone number, address, and email).

Submissions are public information

Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on this website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.

People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.

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