Source: Ministry for Primary Industries
About this consultation
New Zealand Food Safety is proposing changes to the Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories.
The proposed amendments are intended to move the requirements for recognised laboratories from part 15 of the Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption to the Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories.
Moving the requirements will:
- improve oversight of laboratories responsible for most of the testing carried out under the Regulated Control Scheme
- place the requirements where they are more easily identified by laboratories, laboratory accreditation bodies, and the regulator.
As well as moving the requirements, other technical amendments have been made to the Notice.
Have your say
New Zealand Food Safety is particularly interested in your feedback on:
- the new Part 4
- changes to Schedule 1.
Full details are in the consultation document. Submissions close at 5pm on 20 September 2024.
Consultation documents
Proposed amendments to the Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories [PDF, 483 KB]
Existing notices
Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories [PDF, 301 KB]
Animal Products Notice: Regulated Control Scheme – Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish for Human Consumption [PDF, 900 KB]
Related consultation
Making your submission
Email your feedback on the consultation document by 5pm on Friday 20 September 2024 to rlp@mpi.govt.nz
We encourage you to use the submission template [DOCX, 76 KB]
While we prefer email, you can post your submission to:
Animal Products Notice: Recognised Laboratories Submission
New Zealand Food Safety
Ministry for Primary Industries
PO Box 2526
Wellington 6140
New Zealand.
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.
