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          • Cats and dogs to Australia
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      • Food
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        • Fruit & vegetables
          • Steps to exporting fresh fruit
            • Apples – extra requirements
            • Pears & nashi to USA – extra requirements
            • Summerfruit (stonefruit) – extra requirements
            • Tomatoes (loose) to Australia – extra requirements
          • Steps to exporting fresh vegetables
            • Potatoes – extra requirements
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          • Requirements
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        • Fruit wine, cider & mead
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        • Grains, seeds & nuts
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        • Honey and bee products
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        • Meat
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        • NZ grape wine
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        • Organics
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            • Exporting organic products to Japan
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        • Poultry meat
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        • Processed food
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        • Seafood
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      • Forest products
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      • Plants
        • Grains & seeds for sowing
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    • Importing
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        • Veterinary medicines
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      • Biological products & organisms
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            • Biosecurity assessments for ACVM imports
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        • Cell cultures
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        • Microorganisms
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      • Border clearance
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        • Containers & cargo
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          • Equivalence and co-management
        • Places of first arrival
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        • Transitional & containment facilities
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        • Vessels
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            • Ballast water
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      • Fibre, skins & trophies
        • Fibre & feathers
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        • Hides & skins
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        • Ornamental animal products
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      • Food
        • Dairy
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        • Eggs
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        • Fresh fruit & vegetables
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        • Grains, seeds & nuts
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        • Honey & bee products
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        • Meat
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        • Organics
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        • Pork
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        • Poultry
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        • Processed food
          • Processed foods from animals
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        • Seafood
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        • Supplemented foods
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        • Wine & beverages
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      • Food for animals
        • Animal feeds of plant origin
          • Steps to importing
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        • Fish bait & fish food
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        • Ingredients for animal food
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        • Pet food
          • Steps to importing
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      • Forest products
        • Timber
          • Steps to importing
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        • Wood packaging
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        • Wood products
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      • Live animals
        • Aquatic animals
          • Steps to importing
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        • Avian hatching eggs
          • Steps to importing
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        • Farm animals
          • Steps to importing
          • Farm animals in transit
          • Reporting obligations for imported ruminant animals
          • Requirements
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          • Fees & charges
        • Horses
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
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        • Laboratory animals
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
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        • Pets
          • Steps to importing cats & dogs
            • Assistance & guide dogs
            • Cats & dogs in transit
            • Cats & dogs arriving on vessels
          • Steps to importing pets other than cats & dogs
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
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        • Semen and embryos
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Fees & charges
        • Zoo animals
          • Steps to importing
            • Zoo animals in transit
            • Steps to importing butterflies and moths
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Fees & charges
          • Resources
      • Plants
        • Cut flowers & foliage
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
          • Resources
        • Dried & preserved plant products
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
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          • Fees & charges
        • Growing media and fertilisers of plant origin
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
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          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
          • Resources
        • Nursery stock
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
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          • Genetically modified seeds and nursery stock
        • Seeds for sowing
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
          • Resources
          • Genetically modified seeds and nursery stock
        • Fungi for growing
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
      • Other
        • Inorganic products
        • Soil, rock & water
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
        • Vehicles & machinery
          • Steps to importing
          • Requirements
          • Forms & templates
          • Registers & lists
          • Fees & charges
          • Resources
    • Growing & harvesting
      • Aquaculture
        • Strategy
        • Setting up a land-based farm
        • Setting up a marine farm
          • Undue adverse effects test
          • Aquaculture agreements & arbitration
        • Transferring stock
        • Fees & charges
        • Resources
        • Forms
      • Bees & other insects
        • Manuka honey
        • Bee colony loss survey
      • Dairy animals
        • Farm Systems Change
          • Dairy farm case studies
      • Fisheries
        • Operating as a fisher
          • Overview of requirements
          • Fisheries Communication Centre
          • Vessel registration
          • Annual catch entitlement
          • Crown quota and ACE tenders
          • Deemed values
            • Deemed value rates
          • High seas fishing permit
            • Access fisheries under regional arrangements
            • High seas fishing permit conditions
          • Observer services
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          • Fisheries and conservation services levies
          • Forms and resources
          • International fisheries reporting
        • Licensed fish receivers
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        • Tagging fish
        • Conversion factors
        • Fisheries management
          • Overview
          • Highly migratory species
          • Deepwater fisheries
          • Inshore fisheries
            • Inshore fishing maps
          • Commercial eel fishing
          • International fisheries
          • Fish stock status
        • Shark finning rules
      • Forestry
        • Overview
          • MPI and forestry
          • Montreal Process
          • Preventing illegal logging
        • Forestry in the Emissions Trading Scheme
          • Registering post-1989 forest land
          • Buying, selling or transferring ETS forest land
          • Adding or removing ETS forest land
          • Mapping forest land in the ETS
          • Deforesting forest land
            • When deforestation obligations don't apply
          • Offsetting deforestation of pre-1990 forest land
          • Emissions returns
          • Using the Field Measurement Approach
          • Forms
          • Fees & charges
        • National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry
          • Erosion Susceptibility Classification
          • Fish Spawning Indicator
          • Wilding Tree Risk Calculator
        • Getting started in farm forestry
        • Indigenous forestry
          • Supporting indigenous forestry
          • Forests under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906
          • Harvesting and milling indigenous timber
          • Exporting indigenous timber & timber products
          • Swamp kauri
          • Forms & templates
        • Resources
          • NES-PF resources
        • Taking care of your forest
          • Forestry pest & disease management
            • Kauri dieback
            • Pine needle diseases
            • Wilding conifers
          • Forestry health & safety
      • Land care & management
        • Farm management for healthy waterways
      • Stock water
      • Hemp seeds as food
    • Processing
      • Agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines
        • Introduction to ACVMs
          • ACVM registration process: step by step
        • What is an agricultural compound?
          • Class determinations
        • Veterinary medicines
          • Defining veterinary medicines
          • Getting a veterinary medicine authorised
            • Registering a veterinary medicine
            • Provisional registration of a veterinary medicine
            • Exemptions from registration for vet meds
            • Authorisation of veterinary medicines under special circumstances
          • Manufacturing veterinary medicines
          • Selling veterinary medicines
            • Restricted veterinary medicine sellers
          • Using veterinary medicines
            • Research, testing, and teaching organisations (RTTOs)
            • Own use of veterinary medicines
            • Default withholding periods for veterinary medicines
            • Prohibited substances
            • Phenylbutazone use in horses
            • Milk withholding period based on dilution policy
          • Documents for veterinary medicines
        • Agricultural chemicals
          • Defining agricultural chemicals
          • Getting an agricultural chemical authorised
            • Registering an agricultural chemical
            • Provisional registration of an agricultural chemical
            • Exemptions from registering an agricultural chemical
            • Authorisation of an agricultural chemical in special circumstances
          • Manufacturing agricultural chemicals
          • Selling agricultural chemicals
          • Using agricultural chemicals
          • Documents for agricultural chemicals
        • Vertebrate toxic agents
          • Defining vertebrate toxic agents
          • Getting a vertebrate toxic agent authorised
            • Registering a VTA
            • Provisional registration of a VTA
            • Authorisation of VTAs under special circumstances
          • Manufacturing vertebrate toxic agents
          • Selling vertebrate toxic agents
          • Using vertebrate toxic agents
          • Documents for vertebrate toxic agents
        • Fertilisers
        • Maximum residue levels for agricultural compounds
        • Pet food and animal feeds
        • ACVM exporting
        • ACVM registers and lists
        • ACVM forums
          • AVMAC
            • AVMAC overview
          • Industry Liaison Group
          • VICH
            • Australia and New Zealand's role in VICH
        • ACVM data assessors
      • Animal feed and pet food
        • Feeding offal to dogs
        • Restrictions on feeding food waste to pigs
        • Ruminant feed regulations
          • Ruminant protein control programmes
          • Labelling feed and fertiliser
      • Dairy products
      • Honey and bee products
        • Introduction to honey and bee products
        • Honey and bee product processing
          • Operating under the Food Act
          • Risk Management Programmes for bee products
          • Labelling and composition
          • Documents for honey and bee products
            • Code of Practice for bee products
        • Managing tutin contamination in honey
        • Fees and charges
        • Honey and bee product organisations
        • Honey and bee product registers and lists
      • Maintenance compounds
        • Overview of maintenance compounds
        • Dairy maintenance compounds
        • Non-dairy maintenance compounds
        • Fees and charges
        • Registers and lists
        • Documents for maintenance compounds
    • Food safety
      • Food Act 2014
        • Overview
          • Choices for managing risk
          • Exemptions from plans or programmes
          • Enforcement
          • Register a business under the Food Act
        • Where Do I Fit?
        • Transition timetable
          • Businesses that must register by 31 March 2018
        • Food Act case studies
        • Food control plans
          • Overview
            • Changes to a registered food control plan
          • Steps to a template food control plan
            • Create your template food control plan
          • Steps to a custom food control plan
          • Voluntary Implementation Programme
        • National programmes
          • Steps for National Programme 1
          • Steps for National Programme 2
          • Steps for National Programme 3
          • Early childhood educators and kohanga reo
        • Information for regulators & verifiers
          • Registering food businesses
          • Becoming a recognised agency or person
          • Working as a verifier
          • Working as an evaluator
          • Food safety officers
          • Transition
          • Fast track recognition for national programme verifiers
        • Fundraising & community events
        • Marae food
        • Requirements
        • Fees and charges
        • Forms & templates
        • Registers & lists
        • Resources
          • Food Act workshop videos
          • Top 5 food safety factors
      • Food safety for consumers
        • Food complaints
        • Food recalls
          • Food recall process
        • Is it safe to eat?
          • Apricot kernels and fruit seeds
          • Defects and lumps in meat
          • Frozen imported berries
          • Modified atmosphere packaging
          • Natural toxins in vegetables and beans
          • Pet food
          • Raw milk
            • Raw milk regulations
          • Raw-milk cheeses
          • Raw seed sprouts
          • Rice and other starchy foods
          • Shellfish and scombroid fish
        • Tips for food safety
          • Food safety during sickness or emergencies
          • Food safety resources for teachers
          • Raw meat and cross-contamination
        • Resources
      • Pregnant & at-risk people
        • Food and pregnancy
          • List of safe food in pregnancy
        • Food safety for babies
          • Safely preparing baby bottles and feeding equipment
          • Feeding your baby formula
          • Feeding your baby expressed breast milk
        • People with low immunity
        • Food allergies
          • Identifying allergens in food
          • Eating safely with a food allergy
          • Food intolerances
      • Community food
        • Fundraising & community events
        • Marae food safety
        • Pacific communities
        • Homekill
        • Whitebait
      • What's in our food?
        • Nutrients
          • Folate and folic acid
          • Iodine
          • Trans fatty acids
          • Sodium
        • Bacteria & viruses in food
          • Bacillus cereus
          • Campylobacter
          • Escherichia coli (STEC)
          • Listeria monocytogenes
          • Norovirus
          • Salmonella
          • Yersinia & other harmful bacteria and viruses
        • Chemicals & food
          • Arsenic
          • Dioxins
          • Mercury in fish
          • Plastic packaging
          • Poison residues in food animals
            • 1080
            • Brodifacoum
          • Agricultural compounds & residues
            • Glyphosate
            • Hormonal growth promotants
            • Antibiotics and resistance
          • Maximum residue levels
          • Acceptable daily intakes & reference health standards
        • Food additives
          • Aspartame
          • Monosodium glutamate or MSG
          • Nitrates & nitrites (preservatives)
          • Benzoates, sorbates & sulphites (preservatives)
          • Intense sweeteners
          • Synthetic colours
        • Food labelling
          • Health Star Ratings
            • How Health Star Ratings work
            • Applying Health Star Ratings
            • Governance
            • Monitoring implementation
            • Health Star Rating resources
          • Food labels explained
        • Organic food
      • Selling food
    • Travel & recreation
      • Arriving in New Zealand
        • Items to declare
          • Failing to declare
          • Resources
        • Bringing food for personal use
        • Goods clearance
          • Household goods & personal effects
          • Mail
          • MPI border clearance services
          • Fees & charges
        • Paying fines
        • Pets travelling
        • Places of first arrival – air and seaports
        • Requirements for bringing your vessel to New Zealand
        • Requirements for flying aircraft to New Zealand
      • Fishing
        • Charter fishing vessel operators
          • Forms & templates
          • Resources
        • Information about customary rights
          • Requirements
          • Resources
        • Fishing methods
          • Rock lobster
          • Paua
          • Scallops & dredge oysters
        • Fishing rules
          • Auckland and Kermadec area
          • Central area
          • Challenger area
          • Fiordland area
          • Kaikoura area
          • South-East area
          • Southland area
          • Recreational Fishing Initiative
        • Fish species
          • Blue cod
          • Kahawai
          • Kingfish
          • Paua
          • Snapper
        • Shellfish biotoxin alerts
          • Toxic shellfish poisoning
          • Toxic algal blooms
        • National survey of recreational fishers
      • Leaving New Zealand
        • Taking food overseas
      • Outdoor activities
        • Boating & watersports
          • Cleaning boats
        • Check, Clean, Dry
        • Gardening
        • Holding an outdoor event
        • Hunting & gathering
          • Biosecurity when hunting and gathering
          • Food safety for hunters
          • Hunting in restricted areas
          • Food safety when fishing or gathering shellfish
        • Mountain biking
        • Waiuku Forest
        • Visiting Fiordland
        • Walking & tramping
      • Pets travelling
    • Protection & response
      • Biosecurity
        • National Biosecurity Capability Network
        • Government Industry Agreement
        • Biosecurity 2025
          • Biosecurity 2025 direction statement
          • A biosecurity team of 4.7 million
          • A toolbox for tomorrow
          • Smart, free-flowing information
          • Effective leadership & governance
          • Tomorrow's skills & assets
          • Resources
        • Kiwifruit claim
        • Lifestyle block biosecurity
        • National Policy Direction for Pest Management
      • Animal welfare
        • Overview
          • National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee
            • NAWAC members
          • National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee
            • NAEAC publications
          • Forms
          • Resources
        • Animals in emergencies
        • Animals in research, testing & teaching
          • The 3Rs
          • Accredited reviewers
          • Requirements
          • Resources
        • Codes of Welfare
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Food Focus: November 2008

Editorial; In focus; NZFSA news; Campylobacte; Food Safety; Foodsafe Partnership; International trade; Hospitality; Science; Fact sheet; Out Focus

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  • Entire issue (3 MB PDF)

  • Editorial

  • In focus

  • NZFSA news

  • Freezing of chicken: the pros and cons

  • Colour-coded chopping boards

  • Foodsafe Week 10–16 November

  • Codex urged towards closer cooperation

  • Let’s go al fresco!

  • The backbone of the Animal Products Act – risk management programmes

  • Making food safety a winner at Rugby World Cup 2011

  • The cost of foodborne disease in New Zealand

  • Pesticide maximum residue limit database goes online

  • Taking food away before it bites you

  • Mercury in fish

  • Listeria targets the vulnerable

  • In good hands

  • Lunchbox safety and food safety messages for pregnant women are latest offerings

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