An epidemic of Salmonella Brandenburg abortions in sheep in the South Island, peaking in 2000, and consequential increase in human cases and detections on sheep meat resulted in a "Quantitative risk assessment of Salmonella in sheep meat produced in New Zealand (Sal-QRA)". The Sal-QRA programme has identified the prevalence and levels on carcass meat of Salmonella after slaughter, and demonstrated a significant decrease during processing. Similarly, the failure to identify any cases-control association with consumption of sheep meat suggests that a foodborne route of infection is not contributing significantly to the burden of S. Brandenburg cases.

Hand hygiene is considered to be a key component of infectious disease control. The New Zealand Food Safety Authority and the Ministry of Health recommend that handwashing is carried out according to the ‘20+20 rule’. This involves washing of hands for 20 seconds with soap and hot water and drying for 20 seconds with a clean, dry towel or paper towel.

The Meat Industry Association stated in its 2005 presentation to the NZFSA Verification Agency that one of the strategic goals of the meat Industry in Towards 2006 is…..” To be at the forefront of international food safety.” This goal is thoroughly supported by NZFSA and is unarguably an approach that will assist New Zealand in maintaining its deserved reputation as the world’s largest exporter of sheep-meat of the highest quality

Guidance Document for the safe production of Uncooked Comminuted Fermented Meat (UCFM) products

This document outlines the minimum information necessary for consideration of the residue component of an application to register an agricultural chemical under the ACVM Act.
It provides guidance on the requirements for all forms of trials and the OECD test guidelines to follow in generating the data as well as New Zealand-specific data requirements.

The Council was set up to promote communication between MPI and industry, to give advice to MPI, and to assist in the development and maintenance of standards and guidance under the APA 1999. The Council has been operating since 2006 and the meetings occur as required, usually quarterly.

This Programme is in support of the requirements of Section 7A Movement Controls of the
Meat Act 1981. It should also be noted that the application of sections 52 and 53 of the
Biosecurity Act 1993 are to be considered in the application of this programme to
individual cases.

The RMP template must be completed by a person or people with full knowledge of the operations covered by the RMP. Read this guideline before completing each part of the template. You can either write on a hard copy of the template, or you can get the electronic file off the NZFSA web site and make the changes to the file then print it off.

This guidance document provides information about Cystericercus bovis for farmers.

Hormonal growth promotants (HGPs) are a group of veterinary medicines that pose
unique risks to New Zealand’s trade in primary produce. While it is legal to administer
HGPs to beef cattle in New Zealand, certain overseas countries have banned their use.
As New Zealand exports 80% of its beef produce, it became necessary to develop
regulatory controls to ensure HGP-treated beef is not sent to markets that only accept
non-HGP animal products.