This guide explains the requirements of the Animal Products Act 1999 in relation to homekill and recreational catch. It also includes key information on animal welfare and recommendations for food safety.

While some pain or distress to the animal is inevitable at times from administration of
a product, the intensity and duration must be no more than is necessary to prevent or
treat the condition concerned. Some recognition is therefore required of the extent of
suffering that may arise from the use of alternative products and the suffering that may
arise from not administering the product.

The purpose of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (ACVM) Act 1997 is to:
(1) manage risks (public health, animal welfare, trade, agricultural security);
(2) ensure that the use of agricultural compounds does not result in breaches of domestic food residue standards;
(3) ensure the provision of sufficient consumer information about agricultural compounds.
Conditions are placed on product registrations to help achieve this purpose.

Verifiers have raised a number of questions regarding requirements where there are differences between Chinese and NZ legislation for the labelling of Infant Formula, Follow-on Formula and Formulated Supplementary Foods for Young Children. MPI have compiled the questions below along with the current legislation and guidance. Additional advice is also supplied for verifiers in response to the questions raised.

This document specifies the minimum study and reporting requirements for efficacy and host safety studies submitted in support of an application to register an antimicrobial agent preparation to be applied post- milking to disinfect teats, referred to in future as a teat disinfectant. The requirements also apply to applications to vary the conditions on a registered teat disinfectant.

Bacillus cereus is a spore-forming bacterium that occurs naturally in many kinds of foods and can cause illness in humans. It can form spores that are resistant to heating and dehydration and can therefore survive cooking and dry storage.

Guide to provide the options from RMP businesses who want to manage food safety of non-animal product foods within a Risk Management Programme.

This guidance document has been developed to explain the requirements that apply to the procurement and supply of wild and game estate animals into the regulated food chain and to assist certified suppliers and certified game estate supplier to meet those requirements.

This guide has been published to assist beekeepers, packers and exporters of honey to comply with the Food Standard: Tutin in Honey. The standard has been developed to ensure that dangerous levels of tutin do not occur in honey sold in New Zealand or exported.

A fact sheet to assist New Zealand food producers and growers exporting product to Australia to meet the new Australian country of origin food labelling rules. The new rules become mandatory on 1 July 2018.

This document provides a mapping between the Scope of Operations Cards and the Sectors and Fields in MAPS.