Proposed Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing

About this consultation

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) proposes to amend the Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing.

This Notice is being amended to include long-term requirements for chicken producers to operate under a registered Risk Management Programme (RMP). The amendments have been proposed to transition from the interim requirements, which came into effect on 6 October 2022, following the expiry of the Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) Emergency Control Scheme (ECS), to long-term requirements for a Risk Management Programme (RMP). Under the Animal Products Amendment Regulations 2022, chicken producers must begin operating under a registered RMP no later than 1 November 2023.

These requirements result from the Animal Products Amendment Regulations 2022

Have your say

MPI invites you to comment on the proposed Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing.

Consultation opened on 13 October and closes on 10 November 2022. Full details of what’s proposed are in the discussion document and the draft Notice. 

Consultation documents

Discussion document [PDF, 401 KB]

Draft Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing [PDF, 2.6 MB]

Making your submission

Email your feedback about the proposed Notice by 5pm on 10 November 2022 to animal.products@mpi.govt.nz

We encourage you to use the submission template [DOCX, 67 KB]

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

Animal Products Notice: Production, Supply and Processing Submission
New Zealand Food Safety
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140
New Zealand.

Call our freephone with your questions

From 17 October to 10 November, chicken producers can call our freephone with questions. When your call is answered, let the help desk know you have questions on the proposed salmonella enteritidis requirements.

Freephone 0800 00 83 33 – select option 4 (general enquiries) when prompted.

You can also email as at animal.products@mpi.govt.nz

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.

People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.

Official Information Act 1982 – NZ Legislation