Requirements
A list of requirements you need to meet when exporting Seafood.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand website - the Food Standards Code
Overseas Market Access Requirements (OMARs)
Animal Products - Official Devices Programme: Interim Requirements, and Guidance for Operator Seal use
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- Requirement - Guidance
- Subject
- Dairy, Exporting, Food, Meat, Poultry Meat, Seafood, Export Clearance, Honey & Bee Products
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- Approval Notice Amending Carton Seals and Intervention Seals [PDF, 32 KB]
- Animal Products - Official Devices: NZFSA Container Seals [PDF, 19 KB]
- Animal Products (Export Requirements for Branding, Marking and Security Devices) Notice 2012 [PDF, 77 KB]
Requirements for the use, manufacture, supply and security of official devices and operator container seals for export animal products and animal material
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Manual 15: Approvals - Brands-Inspection Legend Material - Container Seals
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- Requirement - Guidance
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Meat, Poultry Meat, Seafood, Export Clearance
- Related
- Approval Notice Amending Carton Seals and Intervention Seals [PDF, 32 KB]
- Animal Products - Official Devices: NZFSA Container Seals [PDF, 19 KB]
- Animal Products - Official Devices Programme: Interim Requirements, and Guidance for Operator Seal use [PDF, 23 KB]
- Animal Products (Export Requirements for Branding, Marking and Security Devices) Notice 2012 [PDF, 77 KB]
In this manual are the approvals for brands, inspection legend material and container seals.
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Codes of Practice
Further processing - Code of practice
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- Codes of practice
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- Requirements, Processing, Exporting, Food, Seafood, Poultry Meat, Law & Policy, Codes of Practice, Further Processing
The further processing Code of Practice contains guidance for good operating practices (GOP) for a range of processing operations.
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Notices
Animal Products (Fish Export Processing Requirements) Notice 2011
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Seafood, Requirements, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices
Requirements to export fish product with an official assurance and processors of fish product for export with an official assurance.
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Animal Products (Recognised Agencies and Persons Specifications) Notice 2015
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- Notice
- Subject
- Seafood, Requirements, Exporting, Animals, Live Bees, Live Animals, Live Poultry, Semen & Embryos, Law & Policy, Approved Organisations & People, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices
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- Recognised Evaluators of Non-dairy Risk Management Programmes – Guidance document [PDF, 735 KB]
LAS, recognised persons & agencies: Specifies requirements for recognised agencies and verifiers and others; except for dairy processors, those exporting live animals, or working with germplasm.
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Animal Products (Regulated Control Scheme - Handling of Animal Products and Animal Material at Wharves) Notice 2010
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Seafood, Export Clearance, Wharves & Airports, Transport, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Requirements for transporting and wharves, Documents, Specifications and Notices
Requirements for the handling of animal products and animal material at wharves in order to meet requirements of overseas markets.
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Animal Products (Regulated Control Scheme - Transport of Animal Products and Animal Material for Export with an Official Assurance) Notice 2009
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Seafood, Transport, Export Clearance, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Requirements for transporting and wharves, Documents, Specifications and Notices
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- Animal Products (Transport of Export Animal Products and Handling at Point of Export) Notice 2009, Animal Products (Regulated Control Scheme - Animal Products Transportation for Export with Official Assurances) Notice 2009 [PDF, 17 KB]
- Animal Products (Regulated Control Scheme - Transport of Animal Products and Animal Material for Export with an Official Assurance) Amendment Notice 2009 [PDF, 54 KB]
Requirements for the transport of animal products and animal material in order to meet requirements of overseas markets.
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Animal Products (Specifications for Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish) Notice 2006
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Seafood, Requirements, Importing, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices
Applies to anyone involved with Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish on marine or land-based farms or in the wild and subject to a Regulated Control Scheme.
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Animal Products (Specifications for Limited Processing Fishing Vessels) Notice 2005
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Seafood, Requirements, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices
If you operate a Limited Processing Fishing Vessel and export seafood directly from your vessel, you need to operate under this Notice.
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Animal Products (Transport of Export Animal Products and Handling at Point of Export) Notice 2009
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- Notice
- Subject
- Transport, Exporting, Food, Seafood, Export Clearance, Wharves & Airports, Animals, Rendered Animal Products, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Requirements for transporting and wharves, Documents, Specifications and Notices
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Animal Products Notice Export Verification Requirements 2016
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Honey & Bee Products, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Dairy, Eggs, Meat, Seafood, Poultry Meat, Animals, Animal Feeds, Pet Food, Honey and bee product requirements, requirements
This introduction is not part of the Animal Products Notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect. For the purposes of safeguarding assurances provided by New Zealand, this notice sets verification requirements and frequencies in relation to animal products for export.
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Animal Products Notice: Contaminant Specifications
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Meat, Eggs, Seafood, Importing, Poultry, Requirements, Pork, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices
The purpose of this Notice is to set exogenous contaminant specifications for animal material and animal products intended for human consumption.
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Animal Products Notice: Contaminant Specifications 60b Exemption
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- Notice
- Subject
- Meat, Seafood, Requirements, Exporting, Food Safety
The notice exempts specified products from the Animal Products Contaminant Specifications for specified levels of contaminants for export to countries listed in the notice.
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Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements 2018
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- Type
- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Honey & Bee Products, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Dairy, Eggs, Meat, Seafood, Poultry Meat, Animals, Animal Feeds, Pet Food, Honey and bee product requirements, requirements
This introduction is not part of the Animal Products Notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect. For the purposes of safeguarding assurances provided by New Zealand, this notice sets verification requirements and frequencies in relation to animal products for export.
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Animal Products Notice: Official Assurances Specifications for Animal Material and Animal Products
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- Notice
- Subject
- Exporting, Food, Honey & Bee Products, Law & Policy, Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Eggs, Meat, Poultry Meat, Seafood, Animals, Semen & Embryos, Live Poultry, Live Animals, Live Bees, Animal Feeds, Pet Food, Honey and bee product requirements, requirements
This notice specifies the requirements that must be followed in order to receive an official assurance to accompany exported animal material or animal products within the scope of the Animal Products Act 1999 (the Act).
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Animal Products Notice: Specifications for Products Intended for Human Consumption
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- Notice
- Subject
- Seafood, Importing, Honey & Bee Products, Eggs, Poultry, Meat, Animal Products Act Notices, Food, Requirements, Requirements, Law & Policy, Exporting, Pork, Requirements for cold and dry stores, specs and notices, Honey and bee product requirements, requirements, Processing, National Microbiological Database, Compliance documents for NMD, Specifications and Notices
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- Coversheet - Animal Products (Specifications for Products Intended for Human Consumption) Notice 2016 [PDF, 74 KB]
- Quick reference table for old and new clause numbering [PDF, 131 KB]
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Coversheet - Animal Products (Specifications for Products Intended for Human Consumption) Notice 2016
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- Notice
- Subject
- Seafood, Honey & Bee Products, Eggs, Poultry Meat, Meat, Food, Requirements, Exporting, National Microbiological Database, Compliance documents for NMD, Specifications and Notices
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- Animal Products Notice: Specifications for Products Intended for Human Consumption [PDF, 2762 KB]
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New Zealand List of scientific names of fish
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- Notice
- Subject
- Requirements, Animal Products Act Notices, Seafood, Exporting, Importing, Law & Policy, Food, Requirements
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- Procedures for Selecting NZ Common Fish Names and Approved Foreign Fish Names [PDF, 486 KB]
- Application Form Proposed Amendment to the New Zealand List of Scientific Names of Fish and/or the Approved Fish Names List [PDF, 309 KB]
- Approved Fish Names List for export [PDF, 763 KB]
- New Zealand list of scientific names of fish [PDF, 447 KB]
Notice regarding list of common, Maori and scientific names of fish and seafood. These names are used on labels for food for human consumption.
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Procedures for Selecting NZ Common Fish Names and Approved Foreign Fish Names
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- Notice
- Subject
- Seafood, Exporting, Importing, Food
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- New Zealand List of scientific names of fish [PDF, 450 KB]
- Application Form Proposed Amendment to the New Zealand List of Scientific Names of Fish and/or the Approved Fish Names List [PDF, 309 KB]
- Approved Fish Names List for export [PDF, 763 KB]
- New Zealand list of scientific names of fish [PDF, 447 KB]
Common fish names for use in NZ and approved foreign fish names are determined by the MPI and NZ Seafood standards council.
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