Legislation on food and beverage manufacture
MPI's food safety legislation related to manufacturing food and beverages. Includes specifications, notices, and standards.
Refer to the NZ Food Standards to find out your legal obligations under the agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia concerning a joint Food Standards System:
New Zealand (Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code) Food Standards 2002
Specifications and notices


Specifies requirements and procedures to recognise agencies and persons including competencies, qualifications, experience and performance standards.



This code of practice is designed to help fruit wine, cider and mead makers meet the requirements under the Wine Act 2003.



Grape Wine, Version 2 October 2011
Standards

- Food (Uncooked Comminuted Fermented Meat) Standard 2008 [PDF, 106 KB]
Guidance Document for the safe production of Uncooked Comminuted Fermented Meat (UCFM) products

This standard sets requirements for the processing of UCFM (including, without limitation, products such as salami and beer sticks). UCFM is also a prescribed food under Food (Prescribed Foods) Standard 2007.

This revocation standard is the Food (Revocation of Maximum Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds, Importer Listing, Importer General Requirements, Prescribed Foods, and Imported Milk and Milk Products Standards) Standard 2016

The purpose of this standard is to a) provide an interim regulatory arrangement for supplemented food until there are appropriate provisions in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code); and b) regulate the “food-type” dietary supplements that were formerly regulated under the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985.

The New Zealand (Permitted Fortification of Bread with Folic Acid) Food Standard 2012 (the Standard) came into force on 28th September 2012. This New Zealand only standard continues to permit the voluntary addition of folic acid to bread sold in New Zealand.

The New Zealand (Permitted Fortification of Bread with Folic Acid) Food Standard 2012 (the Standard) came into force on 28th September 2012. This New Zealand only standard continues to permit the voluntary addition of folic acid to bread sold in New Zealand.

A guidance document to help small businesses make safe UCFM products