UPDATE – 17 December 2020
Following consultation, the revised Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements has been published.
Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements [PDF, 873 KB]
Guidance document: Guidance to the Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements
About this consultation
New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) proposed an update to the verification requirements for bee product processors requiring risk management programmes as detailed in the Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements.
The proposed changes were related to:
- raising the ceiling verification step from step 6 (6-monthly) to step 7 (annually)
- introducing off-site verification at step 6 where the verifier determines it appropriate
- verification requirements related to COVID-19. These changes were intended to assist in futureproofing verification requirements against potential impacts of COVID-19.
Full details were in the consultation documents.
Consultation documents
Draft Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements [PDF, 389 KB]
Draft guidance to the Animal Products Notice: Export Verification Requirements (bee product processors requiring an RMP) [PDF, 263 KB]
Discussion document: Amendments to the Animal Products Notice Export Verification Requirement [PDF, 243 KB]
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