Manuals and guidelines for seafood processing
Manuals and guidelines for food safety in the fish and seafood industries, including using fish names in packaging, mercury certification, fish product recall, biotoxin test methods and more.
Fish names NZ and foreign

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.

Common fish names for use in NZ and approved foreign fish names are determined by the MPI and NZ Seafood standards council.
Mercury Certification Guide

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.

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.
Release of Fish or Fish Product Detained or Recall

Assist RMP operators have a procedure in their RMP for sampling & testing bivalve molluscan shellfish product detained or recalled for marine biotoxin reasons.

Coversheet - Assist RMP operators have a procedure in their RMP for sampling & testing bivalve molluscan shellfish product detained or recalled for marine biotoxin reasons.
MPI's Seafood Safety guidelines and manuals

This document has been produced by the Fishing Industry Inspection and Certification
Council (FIICC) to provide:
- background information from which an understanding of the hazard analysis
critical control point (HACCP) approach to food safety can be obtained;
- guidance in the design and implementation of a HACCP plan for food safety;
- a template for seafood applications;
- generic models for the application of the template to selected products;
- guidance on other HACCP-based applications.

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.

This guidance is to assist with the implementation and validation of new marine biotoxin test methods.

These guidelines have been developed to assist company checkers comply with the
requirements of IAIS 003.8: Internal Compliance Programme and Records Circular 1997.

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.

The Fish Export Processing Regulations, First Schedule to the Regulations, Part II clase 22, states:
"All fish premises shall have in place an approved quality control programme that provides for-

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.

This document describes the charging system to recover programme costs applying to primary processors of fish and bivalve molluscan shellfish (BMS shellfish).