- MPI Multi-Use Number Scheme (AF9) [PDF, 105 KB]
- MPI Multi-use New Approvals Unregistered ACVM Application - template [XLS, 31 KB]
Guidance resources
MPI has a wide range of guidance documents to help you with subjects from food safety in the home to complying with import requirements. Search for a document by subject or title.
This guide outlines MPI's requirement for exporting bee products
This guideline is provided to assist the Recognised Agencies (RAs) to perform Loadout checks on export consignments of dairy material and dairy product. Additionally it serves to reiterate the obligations of Exporters of Dairy Material and Dairy Product to the EU as
prescribed in section 2.1 of the European Union, Animal Products: Overseas Market Access Requirements.
This document provides guidance and examples for each of the clauses in the Animal Products (Dairy Risk Management Programme Specifications) Notice 2005 relevant to significant amendments
This statement is made for the purposes of clause 7.5 of the Animal Products Notice Specifications for Products Intended for Animal Consumption 2014.
This document describes risk management after authorisations have been issued for importation, manufacture, sale or use of ACVM products.
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This guidance document has been developed to help processors of uncooked comminuted fermented meat (UCFM) products to comply with the Food (Uncooked Comminuted Fermented Meat) Standard 2008 (UCFM Standard). It covers the processing requirements and Good Operating Practices for the production of safe UCFM products.
- ACVM 15 class determination request form [DOCX, 67 KB]
- Class Determination Request Guideline [DOCX, 96 KB]
Form to request a determination of a product’s status under the ACVM Act.
A guidance chart outlining how recognised agencies and persons fit in with the Animal Products Act. (March 2016)
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) administers the Animal Products Act 1999
and its associated legislation.
The Animal Products Act 1999 has the objective of managing and minimising the risks to
human and animal health from the production and processing of animal material and
products, and of facilitating overseas market access.
Scope: Tallow, fish oil, poultry oil, meat meals, meat & bone meals, dried blood, blood meal, poultry meal, feather meal
Risk organisms are pests and diseases that have not appeared in New Zealand previously or have been eradicated to enable New Zealand to be considered by Office International Des Epizooties OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) as free
This manual has been commissioned by the New Zealand Government to support the goals and objectives of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. This manual was compiled to supply details on the design and operation of the different types of existing, newly developed respiration chambers. These chambers constitute the most accurate and precise means of measuring emissions of methane and other gases arising from enteric fermentation, responsible for about 30 percent of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.