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Food Safety in New Zealand: Application of a Risk Management Framework

April 2008

Summary

This document updates Food Administration in New Zealand: A Risk Management Framework for Food Safety, published jointly in June 2000 by the New Zealand Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. It reiterates the need for an agreed process for systematically managing the myriad food safety issues that a regulator must address in an ever-changing food safety environment and includes practical experience that has been gained by NZFSA over the past seven years. It also recognises that the state of scientific knowledge will always be limited and there is a need to continually invest in new risk assessments and all aspects of risk management if there are to be continual improvements in food safety. As the independent competent authority in New Zealand, NZFSA manages risks to food safety through regulation and provides official assurances on exports of animal products, including milk products and seafood.