New Zealand National Chemical Residues Programme Report

Results for 1 July 2016 – 30 June 2017 for bovine, ovine, caprine, cervine, equine, porcine and wild animals, ostriches, honey, farmed salmon, fish, poultry, turkeys, and ducks.

The management of New Zealand’s deepwater fisheries is a collaborative arrangement between MPI, representing the Crown and its statutory obligations to the public, and the commercial fishing industry, represented by the Deepwater Group Ltd (DWG). The management of New Zealand’s deepwater fisheries has been implemented through the National Fisheries Plan for Deepwater and Middle-depth Fisheries (National Deepwater Plan).

The Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Primary Industries together are leading the development of the New Zealand National Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plan. This document outlines the evidence and the collective, expert views of stakeholders from across the sectors of animal and human health, food, and agriculture on how best to address antimicrobial resistance in New Zealand.

A review and update on New Zealand regulatory control of antimicrobial agricultural compounds with regard to antimicrobial resistance (April 2011).

This document addresses the recommendations from the report of the Antimicrobial
Resistance Expert Panel, 30 August 2005. The advice of the Antimicrobial Resistance
Steering Group on the same recommendations was included, and both informed the response of NZFSA (now MPI).

A review of the impact of the use of antimicrobials in animals and plants on the development of antimicrobial resistance in human bacterial pathogens.
Author: Mary D Barton, Professor of Microbiology

Response of the antibiotic resistance steering group to the report of the antibiotic
resistance expert panel, based on a meeting in September 2005.

The data in this report provide information on annual sales of restricted veterinary antibiotics used in food-producing animals.

Registrants of prescription veterinary medicines containing antibiotics are required to provide an annual summary of sales to NZFSA (now MPI) as a condition of registration. This report provides an update of antibiotic sales figures since the Antibiotic 2004-05 sales report.

Registrants of prescription veterinary medicines containing antibiotics are required to provide an annual summary of sales to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) as a condition on the registration. This report summarises the sales for the year April 2004 to the end of March 2005 and provides a comparison with the information supplied for the previous two years.

A review of the impact of the use of antimicrobials in animals and plants on the development of antimicrobial resistance in human bacterial pathogens. This report was prepared by an expert panel appointed by the Antibiotic Resistance Steering Group in 2004.

This ACVM information paper contains a list of questions and answers about antibiotic resistance in bacteria.