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Specifications/Notices - Animal Material and Product Requirements

Specifications provide technical detail or give effect to requirements in the Act or regulations .The requirements are to be met by anyone operating under the Animal Products Act, e.g. operators of registered risk management programmes, limited processing fishing vessels, exporters.

Animal Material and Product Requirements

Ante-Mortem and Post-Mortem - examination requirements (mammals, ostrich & emu and poultry)

• Animal Products (Official Assessors: Ante-Mortem and Post-Mortem Inspectors) Notice 2009 [PDF 95.4KB]
• Animal Products (ante-mortem and post-mortem examination of mammals and ostrich & emu intended for human consumption) Notice 2006 - Gazette Notice No. 1538
• Animal Products (Specifications for the Ante-mortem And Post-mortem Examination of Poultry Intended for Human or Animal Consumption) Notice 2005 - Gazette Notice No. 1431
• Animal Products (Specifications for the Ante-mortem And Post-mortem Examination of Poultry Intended for Human or Animal Consumption) Amendment Notice 2005

Chemicals

• Approved Maintenance Compounds 2007

Killed Wild Mammals for Human Consumption

• Animal Products (Specifications for Products Intended for Human Consumption) Notice 2004 (Certified Supplier Statement for the Supply of Wild Mammal Material for Human Consumption (effective from 1 July 2006)   
• Notice for Procurement Control of Wild Pigs

• Animal Products (National Microbiological Database Specifications) Amendment Notice 2009   [PDF: 52 KB] Effective 6 July 2009

• Animal Products (National Microbiological Database Specifications) Notice 2009 [PDF: 66.7KB] Effective 6 July 2009
  • Schedule 1 National Microbiological Database Programme [PDF: 1.1MB]
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    As per Schedule 1 section 2.11.1 the random sample selection macro applicable to the red meat NMD programme. Contact NMD Administration at 04 894 2677, or email damien.cleland@nzfsa.govt.nz if you have any queries regarding it's application and use.
  • Coversheet

Product intended for Animal Consumption

Product intended for Human Consumption

Residues

• Animal Products (Contaminant Specifications) Notice 2008

• Animal Products (Contaminant Monitoring and Surveillance) Notice 2007 (effective 1 July 2007)
• Animal Products (Sulphonamide–On–Site Monitoring and Surveillance and Non–Sulphonamide Antibiotic Monitoring (Bobby Calves) Specifications) Notice 2005

Risk Management Programme (RMP)

• Animal Products (Risk Management Programme Specifications) Notice 2008
• Animal Products (Requirements for Risk Management Programme Outlines) Notice 2008
• Notice of Exemption
  This notice provides an exemption from evaluation for those freight forwarders that already have a RMP for animal products (non-dairy) and wish to include dairy products.

Shellfish

• Animal Products (Specifications for Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish) Notice 2006 (Gazette Notice No. 1529)