Update – 17 October 2024
We have issued the final Notice.
Animal Products Notice: Poultry Compartments for Export [PDF, 470 KB]
For individuals
Mā te takitahi
Production of day-old chicks and hatching eggs within a compartment for export
About this closed consultation
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) proposed to create a new animal products notice. The proposed notice was to allow exporters of day-old chicks and hatching eggs to establish a biosecure compartment, which can be certified to be free from particular diseases. The name of the proposed Notice was Regulated Control Scheme – Production of day-old chicks and hatching eggs within a compartment for export.
Submissions opened on 12 March and closed on 22 April 2024.
Consultation documents
Discussion paper: Production of day-old chicks and hatching eggs within a compartment for export [PDF, 315 KB]
What was proposed?
This proposed notice was to issue export requirements and impose a Regulated Control Scheme under the Animal Products Act 1999 on companies choosing to take part in the scheme to administer and provide oversight of listed compartments.
A compartment is a subpopulation with a specific health status. In this case, poultry companies involved in the production of hatching eggs and day-old chicks for export would independently establish a compartment around the part of their company involved with production of hatching eggs and day-old chicks for export.
The compartments would be targeting any or all of these diseases:
- avian influenza
- Newcastle disease
- specified Salmonella serovars (Pullorum and Gallinarum).
It is possible additional diseases would be added later.
The proposed Regulated Control Scheme would include measures related to:
- listing of compartments
- requirement for a documented biosecurity management plan
- physical, spatial, and infrastructural requirements
- traceability and movement control requirements
- sanitisation and hygiene requirements
- verification requirements
- disease-specific monitoring and surveillance requirements
- requirements for independent evaluators of biosecurity management systems.
Full details were in the consultation documents.
Submissions are public information
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