This study was undertaken at the request of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority/Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to update the raw milk cheese component of a previous study of human disease associated with raw milk and raw milk products, titled ‘A systematic review of the human disease evidence associated with the consumption of raw milk and raw milk cheeses’ (Jaros et al. 2008)

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Pasteurisation of milk is a key component in control of milk-borne pathogens that
threaten public health (Holsinger et al 1997). It was originally developed for the control of infection due to brucellosis and tuberculosis from infected cattle, but also controls a wide range of other human pathogens

This Dairy National Chemical Contaminants Programme (NCCP) Report provides a summary of results for the full 2011/12 dairy season, spanning the period July 2011 to June 2012

This Dairy National Chemical Contaminants Programme (NCCP) Report provides a summary of results for the full 2012/13 dairy season, spanning the period July 2012 to June 2013

This National Chemical Contaminants Programme (NCCP) – Raw Milk Result Summary July 2013 to June 2014 provides a summary of results for raw milk and colostrum sampled over the full 2013/14 dairy season, spanning the period July 2013 to June 2014

This National Chemical Contaminants Programme (NCCP) – Raw Milk Result Summary July 2014 to June 2015 provides a summary of results for raw milk and colostrum sampled over the full 2014/2015 dairy season, spanning the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015

Dairy monitoring and surveillance programmes for selected substances of interest have been in operation in New Zealand for many years, and a national programme monitoring raw milk was introduced in the 1996/97 dairy season. Since that time the programme has become an official programme under the Dairy Industry (National Residue Monitoring Programme) Regulations 2002, and is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)

Dairy monitoring and surveillance programmes for substances of interest have been in operation in New Zealand for many years, and a national programme for the monitoring of raw milk was introduced in the 1996/97 dairy season. Since that time the programme has become an official programme under the Dairy Industry (National Residue Monitoring Programme) Regulations 2002, and is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

NCCP - Dairy Products and Raw Milk Dioxin, Dioxin-like PCB, and Indicator PCB Results (2014, 2015, and 2016)

NCCP - Dairy Milk Powder Radionuclide Results (2013/14 and 2014/15)

NCCP - Raw Milk Result Summary (July 2015 to June 2016)

Marc and Maria Gascoigne started on Gascoigne Farm Limited in 1995 in a 50/50 equity partnership with Marc’s parents. Over time they progressively bought out their equity partner and expanded. The farm now comprises a 150 hectare effective milking platform and a 38 hectare dairy support block. It is located 10 minutes south of Cambridge in the Waikato. They have a 445 cow spring calving Friesian herd, which produced 224,692 kgMS in the 2014/15 season.

This paper proposes amendments to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 (DIRA) and the Dairy Industry Restructuring (Raw Milk) Regulations 2012 (Raw Milk Regulations), largely arising from the recent review of the state of competition in dairy markets. This paper also proposes new regulations for ongoing monitoring of dairy markets and technical amendments to the DIRA to recognise the change in management arrangements for the New Zealand Dairy Core Database that was agreed by Cabinet in 2014.