For individuals
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Food safety and suitability research
MPI's research programmes help to ensure food is safe and suitable in New Zealand and overseas.
For individuals
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Outdoor activities
- Boating and watersports tips to prevent spread of pests
- Recreational fishing
- Gardening: finding and reporting pests
- Holding an outdoor event: tips to prevent spread of pests
- Hunting and gathering: biosecurity and food safety
- Tramping tips to prevent spreading pests and diseases
- Visiting Waiuku Forest
- Learn more about biosecurity
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Food safety at home
- About New Zealand Food Safety
- Food recalls and complaints
- Food and pregnancy
- Safe food for babies
- Food allergies and intolerances
- Food for people with low immunity
- How to read food labels
- How Health Star Ratings work
- Food additives and preservatives
- Nutrients added to food
- Preparing and storing food safely at home
- Food safety tips for fishing, hunting, and homekill
- What is organic food?
- Is it safe to eat?
- Safe levels of chemicals in food
- Food poisoning: symptoms and causes
- Fundraising, community, and social event food safety
- Food safety tips when you're sick
- Food safety in natural disasters and emergencies
- Food safety resources
- Reducing food waste at home
For businesses
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For businesses
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Food business
- About New Zealand Food Safety
- Food safety rules
- Starting a food business
- Running a food business
- Food safety toolkit
- Food recalls
- Labelling and composition of food and drinks
- Food Act registration authorities, verifiers, evaluators and food safety officers
- Food safety registers and lists
- Food safety legislation
- Food safety in natural disasters and emergencies
- Importing food and beverages
- Exporting food and beverages
- Dairy products processing, manufacture, and testing requirements
- Bakery and grain-based products
- Honey and bee products processing requirements
- Meat and game processing requirements
- Seafood processing, storage, and testing
- Winemaking standards, requirements, and testing
- Poultry and egg processing requirements
- Transport, wharf, and cold and dry store operator food safety
- Maintenance and cleaning products in animal product processing
- Food safety and suitability research
- Food monitoring and surveillance
- Food safety codes and standards
- Food safety insights, emerging risks, and current issues bulletin
- World Food Safety Day
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Export
- Exporting from NZ: how it works
- Meeting NZ standards for export
- Export requirements
- Register as an exporter
- Exporting animal food
- Exporting food and beverages
- Exporting wool, hides, trophies, and rendered animal products
- Exporting live animals
- Exporting grains and seeds for sowing
- Exporting live plants and laboratory plant products
- Exporting agricultural compounds
- Exporting timber and wood products
- Exporting veterinary medicines
- E-commerce: selling goods online to customers overseas
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Import
- Importing into NZ: how it works
- Border clearance: aircraft, boats, arrival, and clearance facilities
- Household goods and personal effects importing to NZ
- Importing food and beverages
- Importing timber and wood products
- Importing biological products and organisms
- Importing agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines (ACVM)
- Importing live animals
- Importing animal food
- Importing fibre, skins, and trophies
- Importing plants, flowers, seeds, and plant-growing products
- Importing inorganics and waste
- Importing vehicles, machinery, and parts
- Importing research samples (excluding animal samples)
- Importing soil, organic fertilisers and growing media of plant origin
- Biosecurity
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Animals
- Animal welfare
- National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme
- Mycoplasma bovis disease eradication programme
- Foot-and-mouth disease response plans
- Veterinary medicines and the ACVM Act 1997
- Growth hormones
- Pet food, animal feed, and nutritional supplements
- Animal feed: preventing disease transfer
- Vertebrate toxic agents: making, selling, and using
- Slaughtering requirements
- Dropped hock syndrome
- Protecting pet rabbits from caliciviruses
- Exporting live animals
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Agriculture
- Agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines (ACVM)
- Plant products requirements and pesticide levels
- Dairy farming
- Poultry and eggs requirements
- Winemaking, standards, requirements, and testing
- Beekeeping: loss survey, tutin contamination, regulations
- Organic product requirements in NZ
- Farm management, the environment, and land use
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Funding and rural support
- Adverse events
- Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures
- Māori agribusiness funding and support
- Primary Growth Partnership (PGP)
- Fishing and aquaculture funding and support
- Environment and natural resources: funding and programmes
- Farming funds and programmes
- Funding programmes for tree planting and research
- Future workforce skills for the primary industries
- Sustainable Regions funds and programmes
- Rural Community Hubs
- Mental wellbeing fund for rural communities
- Rural proofing: guidance for policymakers
- Wood Processing Growth Fund
- Jobs for Nature
- On Farm Support
- Fishing and aquaculture
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Forestry
- Getting started in forestry
- New Zealand's forests
- National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry
- Funding for tree planting and research
- Native (indigenous) forests
- Forest industry and workforce
- Forestry in the Emissions Trading Scheme
- Protecting forests from summer wildfires
- Forest science and research
- Crown Forestry
- About Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service
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