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Risk Management Programme Manual for Animal Product Processing

12 Appendix D: Businesses Not Requiring RMPs

Amendment 3

October 2009

(Section 13 of the Animal Products Act)

The following persons are not required to have RMPs:

• primary producers (e.g. sheep, beef and broiler farmers) of animal material

• transporters of animal material prior to primary processing

• secondary processors of animal products not intended for human or animal consumption (except if an official assurance is required for export)

• listed home-kill or recreational catch service providers (except dual operator butchers)

• processors of dairy material or dairy products not intended for human or animal consumption except for technical grade dairy product manufactured in a human or animal consumption production facility (see additional criteria in Appendix C)

• those exempted by Order in Council made under section 9; and

• those exempted by the Director-General under section 14.

12.1 Exemptions by Order in Council

(Animal Products (Exemptions and Inclusions) Order 2000 including Amendment Orders 2001, 2001 No. 2, 2005 and 2008)

The following persons are not required to have an RMP:

a. those operating fishing boats where the fish is not landed in New Zealand nor claimed to be a product of New Zealand

b. those whose products are covered by the Medicines Act 1981 (except where required for Official Assurances)

c. those whose products are covered by the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997 (except for rendering and blood-drying operations, or where required for Official Assurances)

d. those who process certain dairy products that are consumed on the premises

e. those who process certain dairy products that are food (e.g. multi-ingredients foods such as cakes, biscuits, soups and pastries, caffeinated or alcoholic drinks) except those who process multi-ingredient foods that consist principally of dairy products (see Appendix H), ice cream, or where required for Official Assurances

f. those who process dairy material for the NZ or Australian market only, under a food safety programme, but are not a farm dairy operator

g. those who process dairy material for animal consumption for the domestic market, if no other operations at the same premises require an RMP

h. those who are primary processing animal material for purposes other than human or animal consumption e.g. skinning and shearing

i. those processing animal food in accordance with the Food Act regime, e.g. raw meat suitable for human consumption is sold by a supermarket delicatessen as petfood

j. those who have fish on a retail premises and fish is sold by a combination of retail and wholesale where the trader has a food safety programme under the Food Act regime

k. those who operate temporary holding and storage places for fish

l. those who operate limited processing on registered limited processing fishing vessels

m. those who harvest, collect, grade, store or transport raw deer velvet

n. apiarists who harvest, store and transport bee material or product

o. taxidermists (so long as no part of the animal is traded for human or animal consumption – except to rendering, and homekill and recreational catch services are not carried out on the same premises)

p. processors of fish bait, fish berley, chum, or ground bait

q. certain tourist or charter fishing vessel operators and fishing guides

r. whitebait catching and limited processing operations

s. muttonbird primary processors

t. certain primary processors of eggs (those with 100 or less female birds and who sell directly to the consumer – not through a third party); and

u. airline holding facilities operators.

12.2 Exemptions by the Director-General

NZFSA may grant exemptions under exceptional circumstances, under section 14 of the Act, from the requirement to have all or part of an RMP.