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Proposed amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption

About this consultation

New Zealand Food Safety is proposing amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption.

The proposed amendments are intended to move the requirements for recognised laboratories from Part 15 of the Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption (Part 15) to the Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories.

Moving the requirements will:

  • improve oversight of laboratories responsible for most of the testing carried out under the Regulated Control Scheme
  • place the requirements where they are more easily identified by laboratories, laboratory accreditation bodies, and the regulator.

Other proposed amendments

  • Simplifying requirements that are overly prescriptive or complicated.
  • Correcting technical errors.
  • Reducing duplication.
  • Removing requirements that are no longer necessary.

Full details are in the consultation document. Submissions close at 5pm on 20 September 2024.

Consultation document

Draft Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption for consultation [PDF, 1.4 MB]

Proposed amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption [PDF, 424 KB]

Note: Cross-referencing for amended clauses has not been checked but will be for final publication. You are welcome to identify any cross-referencing errors in your submission.

Existing notices

Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption [PDF, 900 KB]

Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories [PDF, 301 KB]

Related consultation

Proposed amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories

Making your submission

Email your feedback on the consultation document by 5pm on Friday 20 September 2024 to animal.products@mpi.govt.nz

We encourage you to use the submission template [DOCX, 76 KB]

While we prefer email, you can post your submission to:

Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption Submission
New Zealand Food Safety
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140
New Zealand.

Submissions are public information

Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on this website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.

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