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Food Safety Programmes - How to protect your customers and your business

The following publications and resources are designed to help you develop a food safety programme (FSP) for your business.

A food safety programme is a written programme designed to manage food safety. It examines all of the steps involved in producing food (from ingredient purchase through to final sale), identifying things with the potential to cause harm to the consumer (the hazards), and implementing controls to eliminate or control such hazards.

For further information or general guidance on developing and implementing a food safety programme in your business contact a Health Protection Officer at your local District Health Board.

An Introduction to Food Safety Programmes:
Managing food safety is your business (PDF)
A small leaflet that gives a brief outline of the concept of food safety programmes and the approval process.

This leaflet provides a good starting point for those who are unfamiliar with food safety programmes and HACCP.

A4 (leaflet)

An Introduction to HACCP (PDF)
This booklet that explains the basic concepts of the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system.

You will find out why we are changing our approach to food safety and learn some practical ways steps to designing a food safety programme based on HACCP.

24pp (booklet)

What Does a Food Safety Programme Look Like? (PDF)
Practical guidance on how to write a food safety programme for your business. The booklet gives you logical steps to follow, and points to consider, when writing a food safety programme.

28pp (booklet)

Food Safety Programmes - How to protect your customers and your business

This resource pack contains all of the NZFSA booklets and fact sheets designed to help you develop a FSP.

It is available free of charge from your local District Health Board.

Food Safety Programmes - How to protect your customers and your business (Video)

This is a video for small food manufacturers who want to protect their customers and their business by implementing a FSP.

It is available on free loan through your local District Health Board.

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Contact for enquiries

New Zealand Food Safety Authority
68-86 Jervois Quay
PO Box 2835
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND

Phone: +64 4 894 2500
Fax: +64 4 894 2501

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