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Proposed Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing

UPDATE – 16 December 2022

The amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing relating to chicken producers come into force on 16 December 2022. The Notice Chapters have been restructured to bring the original Chapter JB, and the consulted Chapter JA forward in the Notice. These are now Chapters FA and FB, and fit before poultry processing in Chapter G. These new requirements in Chapter FA apply to chicken producers operating under a registered Risk Management Programme (RMP).

The interim requirements in Chapter FB will maintain the Salmonella Enteritidis controls and oversight from the Emergency Control Scheme until 31 October 2023, when all chicken producers are required to operate under an RMP.  

Public consultation on the proposed requirements for chicken producers closed on 10 November 2022.

Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing [PDF, 2.6 MB]

Summary of submissions [PDF, 538 KB]

Consultation background

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) proposed to amend the Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing.

This Notice was being amended to include long-term requirements for chicken producers to operate under a registered Risk Management Programme (RMP). The amendments were proposed to transition from the interim requirements, which came into effect on 6 October 2022, following the expiry of the Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) Emergency Control Scheme (ECS), to long-term requirements for a Risk Management Programme (RMP). Under the Animal Products Amendment Regulations 2022, chicken producers must begin operating under a registered RMP no later than 1 November 2023.

These requirements result from the Animal Products Amendment Regulations 2022

Consultation opened on 13 October and closed on 10 November 2022. Full details of what was proposed are in the discussion document and the draft Notice. 

Consultation documents

Discussion document [PDF, 401 KB]

Draft Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing [PDF, 2.6 MB]

Submissions are public information

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