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Outdoor activities
- Boating and watersports tips to prevent spread of pests
- Recreational fishing
- Gardening: finding and reporting pests
- Holding an outdoor event: tips to prevent spread of pests
- Hunting and gathering: biosecurity and food safety
- Tramping tips to prevent spreading pests and diseases
- Visiting Waiuku Forest
- Learn more about biosecurity
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Food safety at home
- Food recalls and complaints
- Food and pregnancy
- Safe food for babies
- Food allergies and intolerances
- Food for people with low immunity
- How to read food labels
- How Health Star Ratings work
- Food additives and preservatives
- Nutrients added to food
- Preparing and storing food safely at home
- Food safety tips for fishing, hunting, and homekill
- What is organic food?
- Is it safe to eat?
- Safe levels of chemicals in food
- Food poisoning: symptoms and causes
- Fundraising, community, and social event food safety
- Food safety tips when you're sick
- Food safety in natural disasters and emergencies
- Food safety resources
For businesses
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Food business
- Food Safety Rules
- Starting a food business
- Exemptions from Food Act requirements
- Food safety toolkit
- Running a food business
- Regulators and verifiers
- Food Act 2014
- Food recalls
- Dairy products processing, manufacture, and testing requirements
- Bakery and grain-based products
- Honey and bee products processing requirements
- Meat and game processing requirements
- Seafood processing, storage, and testing
- Winemaking standards, requirements, and testing
- Poultry and egg processing requirements
- Transport, wharf, and cold and dry store operator food safety
- Labelling and composition of food and drinks
- Maintenance and cleaning products in animal product processing
- Food monitoring and surveillance
- Food safety and suitability research
- Food safety in natural disasters and emergencies
- Food safety registers and lists
- Food safety codes and standards
- Food safety legislation
- Food safety training courses and events
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Export
- Exporting from NZ: how it works
- Meeting NZ standards for export
- Export requirements
- Register as an exporter
- Brexit and what it means for New Zealand’s primary industries
- COVID-19 and the effects on trade
- Exporting food and beverages
- Exporting animal food
- Exporting wool, hides, trophies, and rendered animal products
- Exporting live animals
- Exporting grains and seeds for sowing
- Exporting live plants and laboratory plant products
- Exporting timber and wood products
- Exporting agricultural compounds
- Exporting veterinary medicines
- E-commerce: online selling of products overseas
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Import
- Importing into NZ: how it works
- Border clearance: aircraft, boats, arrival, and clearance facilities
- Household goods and personal effects importing to NZ
- Importing food
- Importing timber and wood products
- Importing biological products and organisms
- Importing agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines (ACVM)
- Importing live animals
- Importing animal food
- Importing fibre, skins, and trophies
- Importing plants, flowers, seeds, and plant-growing products
- Importing inorganic materials
- Importing soil, rock, gravel, sand, clay, and water
- Importing vehicles, machinery, and parts
- Importing research samples (excluding animal samples)
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Biosecurity
- About biosecurity in New Zealand
- Find, report, and prevent pests and diseases
- Major pest and disease threats
- Pests and diseases we want to keep out of New Zealand
- Mycoplasma bovis disease eradication programme
- Long-term biosecurity management programmes
- Biosecurity border clearance: aircraft, boats, arrival, and clearance facilities
- Detector Dogs
- Plans for responding to serious disease outbreaks
- Freshwater pests and diseases
- Marine pest and disease management
- Protecting aquaculture from biosecurity risks
- Forestry pest and diseases
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Animals
- Animal welfare
- National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme
- Mycoplasma bovis disease eradication programme
- Foot-and-mouth disease response plans
- Veterinary medicines and the ACVM Act 1997
- Growth hormones
- Pet food, animal feed, and nutritional supplements
- Animal feed: preventing disease transfer
- Vertebrate toxic agents: making, selling, and using
- Slaughtering requirements
- Dropped hock syndrome
- Protecting pet rabbits from caliciviruses
- Exporting live animals
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Agriculture
- Agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines (ACVM)
- FarmsOnLine
- Plant products requirements and pesticide levels
- Dairy farming
- Poultry and eggs requirements
- Winemaking, standards, requirements, and testing
- Beekeeping: loss survey, tutin contamination, regulations
- Organic product requirements in NZ
- Farm management, the environment, and land use
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Funding and rural support
- Adverse events
- Māori agribusiness funding and support
- Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures
- Primary Growth Partnership (PGP)
- Fishing and aquaculture funding and support
- Funding programmes for tree planting and research
- Environment and natural resources: funding and programmes
- Farming funds and programmes
- Future workforce skills for the primary industries
- Regional economic development funds and programmes
- Rural Community Hubs
- Mental wellbeing fund for rural communities
- Rural proofing: guidance for policymakers
- Jobs for Nature
- Fishing and aquaculture
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Forestry
- Getting started in forestry
- New Zealand forests and the forest industry
- National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry
- Funding for tree planting and research
- Native (indigenous) forests
- Building the forestry and wood processing workforce
- Forestry in the Emissions Trading Scheme
- Protecting forests from summer wildfires
- Forestry resources
- Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service
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COVID-19 information and advice
- Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 and primary industries
- Primary sector businesses, services, and support services
- Safe work practices for businesses and workers
- Advice for orchards and horticultural industries
- Advice for farms and agriculture businesses
- COVID-19 and food safety
- COVID-19 and animal welfare
- COVID-19 in the forestry industry
- Commercial fishers and aquaculture farmers during COVID-19
- Exporting during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Support for the primary sectors during the COVID-19 response
