Manuals and guidelines for seafood processing
Find manuals and guidelines for fish and seafood food safety. This includes scientific species names for packing, mercury certification, seafood product recall, and various guidance documents.
MPI's Seafood Safety guidelines and manuals
This document describes the charging system to recover programme costs applying to primary processors of fish and bivalve molluscan shellfish (BMS shellfish).
This guidance is to assist with the implementation and validation of new marine biotoxin test methods.
These guidelines have been developed to assist seafood companies in determining the
most suitable verification activities for confirming the effectiveness of their cleaning and
sanitation programmes.
This is a revised version of the Animal Products Official Assurances Programme, which now excludes all parts of the previous programme that had been transferred over to the Animal Products (Official Assurances Specifications) Notice 2013.
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) administers the Animal Products Act 1999
and its associated legislation.
The Animal Products Act 1999 has the objective of managing and minimising the risks to
human and animal health from the production and processing of animal material and
products, and of facilitating overseas market access.
Marine biotoxins – Releasing fish that was detained or recalled
Assist RMP operators have a procedure in their RMP for sampling & testing bivalve molluscan shellfish product detained or recalled for marine biotoxin reasons.
Mercury Certification
This guide is issued to replace IAIS 002.2 Mercury Certification Circular 1995 and is intended to assist exporters with mercury level attestations in seafood official assurances.
Fish species names for packaging and labelling
Common fish names for use in NZ and approved foreign fish names are determined by the MPI and NZ Seafood standards council.
- Guidance document: Procedures for selecting NZ common fish names and approved foreign fish names [PDF, 486 KB]
- Application Form: Proposed amendment to the New Zealand list of scientific names of fish and/or the approved fish names list [DOCX, 186 KB]
- New Zealand list of scientific names of fish [PDF, 205 KB]
Common fish names for use in NZ and approved foreign fish names are determined by the MPI and NZ Seafood standards council.
Common fish names for use in NZ and approved foreign fish names are determined by the MPI and NZ Seafood standards council.Common fish names for use in NZ and approved foreign fish names are determined by the MPI and NZ Seafood standards council.
Notice regarding list of common, Maori and scientific names of fish and seafood. These names are used on labels for food for human consumption.
We have an application form you can use if you want to propose a change to the "New Zealand list of scientific names of fish". Download either the Word or PDF version: