Media releases
- News Category
- Corporate
- Date
- 25 Mar 2020
MPI sets up a register for safe practice for essential COVID-19 businesses
We need to verify that operators are following safe practices.
- News Category
- Corporate
- Date
- 16 Mar 2020
MPI science scholarship winners will advance primary industries
The winners represent the innovative and savvy scientists we want to attract into the sector.
- News Category
- Primary Production
- Date
- 13 Mar 2020
Big fines and home detention in wine case
The case related to fraudulently blending and mislabelling wine, then falsifying records.
- News Category
- Primary Production
- Date
- 11 Mar 2020
Review panel appointed as Overseer improvements continue
The panel will critically assess Overseer's modelling capabilities and look for improvements.
- News Category
- Food Safety
- Date
- 09 Mar 2020
New Zealand Food Safety sets significant new goal to reduce foodborne Campylobacter by 20 per cent by 2025
A focus will be on improving how New Zealanders handle, prepare, and cook poultry meat.
- News Category
- Biosecurity
- Date
- 05 Mar 2020
Massey University appointed to research M. bovis impacts on infected animals
It's to improve detection, surveillance, and our understanding of how the disease spreads.
- News Category
- Biosecurity
- Date
- 04 Mar 2020
Invasive weed water hyacinth found in Waikato River
Work has started to locate and remove it.
- News Category
- Animal Welfare
- Date
- 26 Feb 2020
Community detention and bovine-ban for tail-breaking Waikato farmer
More than 150 cows were found to have multiple breakages in their tails.
- News Category
- Fisheries
- Date
- 25 Feb 2020
Seafood Sustainability Award finalists leading the way
The finalists are shining examples of those who are ensuring the sustainability of our kaimoana.
- News Category
- Fisheries
- Date
- 20 Feb 2020
MPI compliance operation protects Taranaki pāua fishery
During the week-long operation, 8 fishery officers interacted with around 180 people during patrols.