Manuals and guidelines for seafood processing

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.

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.

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-

This document provides guidance for the release, by an animal product officer, of fish product detained or recalled due to the potential presence of marine biotoxins.

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.

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.

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:

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.