Food business

Getting your food business started, hiring a food consultant, how to register

Fundraising, social, and community events, and marae food safety requirements

Videos, posters, and templates to meet Food Act 2014 requirements

Food control plans and programmes, verifying your food business, risk management programmes

Information for registration authorities, verifiers, evaluators, and food safety officers

Learn more about requirements, fees and charges, case studies

Recalled food products list, develop your plan, how to do a recall

Getting started, yoghurt, ice cream, cheese, liquid milk, and raw milk products, and monitoring and testing

Iodine and folic acid fortification of bread and bread products

Mānuka honey, managing tutin contamination, RMPs for honey, industry organisations

Primary and secondary meat processing, dual operator butchers, rendering, homekill and wild meat

Fish and seafood harvest, processing, and sale, sea and land-based processing, aquaculture, bivalve molluscan shellfish

Wine standards management plans (WSMP), supplying grapes, labelling requirements, laboratory testing, verifying winemakers

Primary and secondary poultry processing, poultry farming, Whole Flock Health Scheme, egg production, RMPs

Risk management programmes (RMP), regulated control schemes (RCS), transporting and storing animal products for export

How to label what's in your food for retail sale, food sold to caterers, and food sold to other businesses

Using approved agents in dairy, meat, non-dairy animal, and seafood processing 

National Chemical Contaminants, National Chemical Residues, and Food Residues Survey programmes

Human health surveillance, managing foodborne risks, food science research, food risk assessment

Avoid foodborne illness during floods, storms, power cuts, and earthquakes

Operators, businesses, and individuals that are registered, recognised, approved, or listed under laws administered by MPI

Codes of Practice, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, good operating practice, hazard data sheets, regulated control schemes

Food Act 2014, Wine Act 2003, Animal Products Act 1999, Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997 

Details and information about training courses and events