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Dual operator butchers

The following provides information relevant to dual operator butchers.

Under the Animal Products Act 1999 the dual operator butchers are required to register a risk management programme (RMP) before commencing processing.  A dual operator butcher is a retail butcher who also provides homekill and recreational catch services at the same premises or place.

Waiver

• Waiver of the requirement to provide a copy of an independent evaluation report (Domestic) [PDF 52KB]

RMP

• Dual operator butchers - RMP template
• RMP manual
• Further information on RMPs
• Evaluators of RMPs
• Application form for RMP (AP3)
• Workshops for dual operator butchers [Word 85 KB]
• Homekill: Interpretation of the phrase "same premises or place"

• Approval for the Meat at Stalls Food Safety Programme [PDF 20KB]

• Meat stalls FSP template [PDF 289 KB]

Code of Practice

• Further Processing code of practice

Information pamphlets: Dual operator butchers

• Dual operator butcher
• Game estates
• Homekill and recreational catch service providers
• Overview of homekill requirements
• Overview of recreational catch
• Select and slaughter is prohibited
• Specific questions about homekill and recreational catch use

Manuals/Guides:

• A guide to homekill and recreational catch
• Risk management manual

Verification of RMP's

• Policy statement on verification

Registers/ lists: 

• Certified suppliers of wild/game estate animals
• Homekill and recreational catch service providers list
• Risk management programmes register

Application forms:

• Risk management programme: Principle categories of processing tables AP49
• Application form - Dual operator butcher AP3
• Risk management programme registration AP4
• Risk management programme under new operator registration AP5
• Risk management programme: amendment to Registration AP6
• Complete list of forms, statements and declarations

What other related legislative requirements apply to Dual operator butchers?

• Legislation

The most important of these documents are the:

• Animal Products Regulations 2000
• Animal Products (Specifications for Products Intended for Human Consumption) Notice 2004 - all the front general sections are relevant and there are some clauses related to processing of meat later on.
• Also the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code applies to all food. (Refer especially to Part 1 and Part 2.2.)

Information on homekill and recreational catch

• Specific information on homekill and recreational catch

How do I access NZFSA publications?

NZFSA can be accessed from the NZFSA Website

Hard copies of NZFSA Animal products publications, please use the contact link at the bottom of this page

Hard copies of legislation can be purchased from bookshops which stock government legislation.

Where can I find a list of publications?

Animal products publications

Documents applicable to all subjects

• Documents applicable to all subjects

Contact

nzstandards.query@nzfsa.govt.nz