This document sets out New Zealand’s strategic objectives in Codex for 2022-2026 period. New Zealand has been a member of Codex since its establishment in 1963 and attaches great importance to its work. MPI, as the lead agency for Codex in New Zealand works closely with all interested parties in advancing our strategic objectives and promoting the development of international food standards for health protection and trade.

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This is a guidance document to inform the development and implementation of benthic monitoring of salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. It was first published in 2015, revised in 2019, and further revised in this version after an out-of-cycle review in 2022. It aims to provide consistent and clear requirements for the benthic monitoring and management of existing farms, based around an agreed set of environmental quality standards with accompanying rationale.

Ensure it is meat-free ...or cook any waste that contains, or has come in contact with, meat at 100oC for one hour

The document reviews previous risk assessments related to the biosecurity risks from importation of horse meat and meat products. It provides evidence for the development of an import health standard for horse meat (all edible parts of the animal) from all countries. Food safety risks are out of scope.
Two of the organisms assessed may represent sufficient risk to warrant biosecurity risk mitigation measures. The risk level has changed for five organisms compared to previous assessments.

Keywords: Import risk analysis, risk analysis, risk review, horse, equine, equids, meat, meat products, offal

Validation of the E. coli O157 GDS method for analysis of UCFM and cooked meat samples

This report puts forward New Zealand specific excretion factors for poultry within New Zealand and also estimates the total amount of emissions generated for the 2008 calendar year. Emission factors for the broiler, non-chicken meat and layer hen industries are subsequentially determined.

The report entails a review of material flows and end-uses of harvested wood products produced from New Zealand log exports, focusing on New Zealand's three major markets: China, South Korea, and India.

Heat is being used as a biosecurity treatment in a number of areas, including management of risk from exotic pests in timbers under an international standards ISPM 15, and fruit flies in fresh produce. This research was a preliminary study to explore the feasibility of using heat as a surface treatment for hitch-hiker pests inside containers, as a potential replacement for methyl bromide fumigation.