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Draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements

Update – 22 September 2023

Following this consultation, we've released the Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements, technical tracking documents, and a summary of the submissions we received. The new notice sets the requirements for issuing, controlling, and obtaining official assurances for animal material and products (excluding live animals not for human consumption, and germplasm).

Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 401 KB]

The new notice will come into force on 1 March 2024, when it will revoke and replace:

  • Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Animal Material and Animal Products issued on 29 March 2017
  • Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Dairy Material and Dairy Products issued on 29 March 2017.

Both of these notices remain in force until 1 March 2024.

Technical tracking documents

Official Assurances Specifications for Dairy Material and Dairy Products to Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 1.6 MB]

Official Assurances Specifications for Animal Material and Animal Products to Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 2 MB]

Summary of submissions

Summary of submissions on the draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 228 KB]

Consultation background

New Zealand Food Safety consulted on the draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements. This draft notice was to consolidate and replace 2 animal products notices:

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

Consultation documents

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

Draft Animal Products Notice: Official Assurance Requirements [PDF, 632 KB]

Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Dairy Material and Dairy Products

Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Animal Material and Animal Products

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]

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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