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Specifications/Notices - Animal Products

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.

Exports

Ante-post mortem

• Animal Products (Export Requirement: Inspection Agencies Ante-Mortem and Post-Mortem Inspection) Notice 2009 [PDF 163KB]

• Animal Products (Official Assessors: Ante-Mortem and Post-Mortem Inspectors) Notice 2009  [PDF 95.4KB]

Requirements/verification

• Animal Products (Overseas Market Access Requirements for Halal Assurances) Notice 2010 [PDF 137 KB]
• Animal Products (European Union Export Requirements - Animal Material and Products) Notice 2009 [PDF 91.7KB]

• Animal Products (Export Verification Requirements) Notice 2009 [PDF 108K ]
  • Coversheet
  • Export verification programme - Animal Products  [PDF 108KB]
• Animal Products (Official Assurance Specifications) Notice 2005 [PDF 224K] - Gazette Notice No.1445
  The specification is one of several legal instruments making up the manual/guide called the Official Assurance Programme (OAP). This specification is provided for legal reference. For day to day users, the OAP is the appropriate manual/guide as it contains the matters in the legal instruments and provides NZFSA guidance.
• Notice of Exemption in Respect of Exporter Registration - Gazette Notice No. 52

Seals/devices/branding/marks

• Animal Products (Export Requirements for Game Estate Products) Notice 2008 - expired on 1 March 2010 in accordance with clause 3 of that notice.

• Animal Products - Official Devices: NZFSA Container Seals [PDF 18K ]

• Approval Notice Amending Carton Seals and Intervention Seals [PDF 32K ]

• Interim Official Devices Programme
  The interim Official Devices Programme elaborates on the requirements of the notice and maintains current procedures needed for the administration of the notice. For day to day use operators should refer to the interim programme.

Sectors

• Animal Products (Transport of Export Animal Products and Handling at Point of Export) Notice 2009 [PDF 58KB]
  • Coversheet
• Animal Products (Export Requirements for Branding, Marking and Security Devices) Notice 2006 [PDF 73K]

• Animal Products (Game Estate Products  Animal Product Standards Exemption) Notice 2008 [NZFSA Ref. GEP808] - expired on 1 March 2010 in accordance with clause 3 of that notice.
• Animal Products (Export Approved Premises) Notice 2006 [PDF 88K ]

Specific products

• Animal Products (Harvest Statement and Tutin Requirements for Export Bee Products) Notice 2009 No 2  [PDF 102K ]
  • This notice has been amended to revise clause 15 for the purposes of clarity.
  • Bees - apiarist and beekeeper statement for the harvest of honey or other products for human consumption [PDF 24K ] 
• Animal Products (Risk Organism Response Plans) Notice 2008 [PDF 62K ]

Electronic Certification (E-Cert)

• Animal Products (Electronic Certification System Costs Specifications) Notice 2009 [PDF 58K ]