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Proposed amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing

Update – 26 March 2025

Amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing relating to the following chapters and schedules were published today.

  • Chapter A (Preliminaries)
  • Chapter B (Risk Management Programmes)
  • Chapter C (Good Operating Practices)
  • Chapter D (Dairy)
  • Chapter E (General Provisions Applying to all Sectors Except Dairy)
  • Chapter F (Red Meat Hunters, Suppliers and Processors)
  • Chapter H (Fish)
  • Chapter I (Deer Velvet)
  • Chapter L (Non-dairy Secondary Processing)
  • Chapter M (Verification)
  • Chapter N (Recognised Agencies and Persons)
  • Schedule 1 (Post-mortem examination procedures and disposition of red meat animals for animal consumption)
  • Schedule 3 (Meat-marking inks)
  • Schedule 4 (Transfer of red meat product not at required preservation temperature).

Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing [PDF, 1.9 MB]

Summary of submissions [PDF, 439 KB]

Consultation background

New Zealand Food Safety proposed changes to the Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing. The Notice specifies requirements for animal product businesses and Recognised Agencies and Persons of these businesses under the Animal Products Act 1999.

These proposed amendments featured changes to the following chapters and schedules:

  • Chapter A Application, interpretation etc
  • Chapter B Risk Management Programmes
  • Chapter C Good Operating Practice
  • Chapter D Dairy
  • Chapter E General provisions applying to all sectors except Dairy
  • Chapter F Red Meat
  • Chapter H Fish
  • Chapter I Deer Velvet
  • Chapter L Non-dairy Secondary Processing
  • Chapter M Verification
  • Chapter N Recognised Agencies and Persons
  • Schedule 1 Post-mortem examination procedure and disposition tables for domestic petfood farmed mammals
  • Schedule 3 Meat-marking inks
  • Schedule 4 Transfer of red meat product not at required preservation temperature

These included updates to clarify rules, align terminology, and change verification requirements for certain sectors. Full details are in the consultation documents.

In addition to consulting on amendments to the Notice, we also sought feedback on the verification chapter, to decide if this chapter should be reviewed.

Consultation on the proposed amendments closed 10 December 2024.

Consultation documents

Draft Animal Products Notice: Production Supply and Processing showing proposed amendments [PDF, 1 MB]

Discussion paper and summary of proposed amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Production Supply and Processing [PDF, 606 KB]

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