- PDF Version ( 23K) - Print Friendly - Help

Amendment to Verification Statement of Policy

Animal Products Act 1999

June 2009

This statement contains:

• a revocation of the ‘Amendment to Verification Statement of Policy’ signed on 21 December 2005; and

• an amendment to the 2005 Verification Statement of Policy signed on 31 March 2005.

Signed at Wellington this 30th day of June 2009

(signed)

Judy Barker

Assistant Director (Production & Processing)

New Zealand Food Safety Authority

Revocation of the ‘Amendment to Verification Statement of Policy’ signed on 21 December 2005

The ‘Amendment to Verification Statement of Policy’, signed on 21 December 2005, is revoked on the signing on this amendment.

Amendment to Verification Statement of Policy signed on 31 March 2005

The statement is amended by:

1. Revoking Clause 32 and replacing it with the following:

“32 Verification requirements for fishing vessels where any of the fish may be exported directly (ie RMP Factory Vessels)

1. Fishing vessels must be subject to a verification visit:

a. after the first voyage following registration of the risk management programme; or

b. when re-entering the New Zealand fishery, and in such a situation the vessel will commence verification on step1 of schedule 4; or

c. prior to the vessel leaving the New Zealand fishery.

2. Fishing vessels will be subject to the application of schedule 4.

3. Fishing vessel operators must keep a record of all visits to port for each fishing vessel and these records must be available on demand for verification.

4. Each visit to port must be notified to the contracted recognised verification agency 24 hours in advance, except in the case of an emergency port visit, and the recognised verification agency must advise promptly within the 24 hour period whether a routine verification is to be conducted.

5. When a verification visit is to be conducted, fish must not be unloaded from the vessel until the verifier has given approval to unload.

6. Fishing vessels must not return to sea following a verification visit until the verifier has cleared the vessel to recommence fishing and this clearance has been recorded in the verification report.

7. Where a fishing vessel has not been subject to a verification visit within 6 months then that fishing vessel’s risk management programme may be suspended or withdrawn as appropriate.”

2. Inserting, after Clause 32, the following new Clause:

“32(A) Verification requirements for fishing vessels where the fillet product produced under the RMP is sold on the New Zealand market

1. Fishing vessels must be subject to a verification visit within 3 months of registration of the risk management programme.

2. Fishing vessels will be subject to the application of schedule 2.”

3. Deleting the domestic component of Schedule 2 and replacing it with the following:

“Schedule 2
Initial verification frequencies and ceilings

Animal product business	Domestic
	Highest Initial Frequency	Ceiling Frequency
Primary processors of mammals and birds for human consumption	Step 5	Step 5
Secondary processors of mammals and birds for human consumption	Step 5	Step 7
Primary and secondary processors of seafood for human and animal consumption, including fishing vessels	Step 5	Step 7
All other processors of animal product for human consumption	Step 5	Step 7
Stores (cool or dry)	Step 5	Step 7
Primary processors of mammals and birds for animal consumption	Step 4	Step 5
Secondary processors of mammals and birds for animal consumption	Step 7	Step 7
All other processors1 of animal product for animal consumption	Step 7	Step 7
All other businesses that have a risk management programme but not covered by the above animal product business descriptions	Step 5	Step 7
Killed wild mammal material depots	Step 4	Step 7
Fish (other than bivalve molluscan shellfish) material depots, and apiarists	Step 8	Step 8
Bee processors requiring risk management programmes	Step 7	Step 7
Providers of ante mortem and post mortem examination of mammals	Step 5	Step 7”

4. Revoking schedule 4 and replacing it with the following:

“Schedule 4
Verification frequency for fishing vessels where product may be exported

Verification step	Verification frequency
Step 1	Every port visit
Step 2	Every second port visit
Step 3	Every fourth port visit
Number of consecutive acceptable outcomes required to move to a higher step		2
Number of unacceptable outcomes required to move to a lower step		1”

¹ This includes processors that are ‘further (pet food) processors’, as defined in the Animal Products (Specifications for Products Intended for Animal Consumption) Notice 2006, who sell animal material / animal product by wholesale or undertake processes other than size reduction and/or packing.