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New Zealand Food Safety invites comments on proposed changes to the following documents:

- Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing

Submissions close at 5pm on Tuesday 10 December

The proposed amendments featured changes to the following chapters and schedules:
  • Commencement
  • A: Application, interpretation, etc
  • B1: Requirements for RMPs
  • C: Good Operating Practice (GOP)
  • D: Dairy
  • E: General Provisions Applying to All Sectors Except Dairy
  • F: Red Meat
  • FB: Chicken Production
  • H: Fish
  • I: Deer Velvet
  • L: Non-Dairy Secondary Processing
  • M: Verification
  • Schedule 1 – Post-Mortem Examination Procedure and Disposition Tables for Domestic Petfood Farmed Animals
  • Schedule 3 – Meat-marking Inks
  • Schedule 4 – Transfer of red meat product not at required preservation temperature
These include updates to clarify rules, changes to verification requirements for certain sectors, and updates to training requirements.

Questions marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.

Amendments to the PSP Notice are shown throughout this survey in red text or yellow highlights.

Each response box has a character limit of 20,000. You are welcome to attach a PDF, document, or image to supplement your responses.

You can edit your responses as many times as you like before the consultation period ends. To save your progress, select the “I’m done, take me to end of the survey” option and then select "Done". To edit your responses, you need to use the same device and enter the survey link into the browser. This will allow you to go through the survey from beginning to end, and add to any previous responses you have made.

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Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on MPI's website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.

People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision the Ministry for Primary Industries makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.

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