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Proposed changes to the Animal Products Notice: National Microbiological Database Programme

Have your say

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) wants your feedback on proposed changes to the Animal Products Notice: National Microbiological Database Programme.

The notice supplements the requirements of the Animal Product Regulations 2021 and sets requirements for microbiological sampling and testing of animal material and animal products intended for human consumption.

The amendments proposed to the notice seek to enable more flexibility and reduce regulatory burden on operators of very low throughput (VLT) premises.

Consultation documents

Draft Animal Products Notice: National Microbiological Database Programme [PDF, 1015 KB]

Discussion paper: summary of the purpose and scope of the notice and requirements [PDF, 303 KB]

Making your submission

Submissions close at 5pm on 23 October 2025.

To help make your submission, we encourage you to use our submission template [DOCX, 65 KB]

Email your submission to animal.products@mpi.govt.nz

While we prefer email, you can post your submission to:

New Zealand Food Safety
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140.

What to include

If you are using the submission template feedback form, make sure to include:

  • the name of the consultation documents you are submitting on
  • 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).

After the consultation closes

We will analyse submissions to consider any changes needed to the draft notice. A summary of submissions will be published on this page.

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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