Food sectors

Find here the requirements for your specific sector. Make sure you also check the 'General requirements' section (under Industry requirements), for requirements that apply across more than one food sector.

  • Dairy

    Dairy

    Getting started in dairy, farm dairies, manufacturing, storing and transporting, monitoring and testing, exporting, Dairy OMARs, fees and charges, dairy documents.

  • Food service

    Food service

    What food service is, the Food Act 1981, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, Understanding and avoiding foodborne illness such a Campylobacter, Salmonella, Listeria, Notifiable infectious diseases.

  • Food service

    Honey & bee products

    Processing and selling in NZ, labelling, exporting, RMPs, Code of Practice, Regulated Control Scheme, tutin contamination in honey, industry organisations fees & charges, documents.

  • Manufacturers of food and beverages

    Manufacturers of food & beverages

    Food safety requirements, processing operations, industry sector information, industry organisations, manuals & guidelines, legislation, registers and lists.

  • Meat ratites and game

    Meat, ostrich, emu & game

    Primary and secondary processors, animal material depots, dual operators, selling meat at stalls, exporting, importing, homekill, game and wild foods, ASDs, HGPs, industry organisations, charges, documents

  • Organics

    Organics

    Selling organics in NZ, exporting, importing, standard regulatory requirements, using the term 'organic', certification, Official Organic Assurance Programme (OOAP), OMARs, Third Party Agencies (TPAs).

  • Petfoods and inedibles

    Petfood & inedibles

    Petfood manufacture, sale, export & import, rendering, inedible animal products like hides skins & wools, ACVM Act, Animal Products Act, Animal Consumption Specifications, RMPs, official assurances, OMARs.

  • Plant based products

    Plant products

    Selling plant products in NZ, exporting plant products, MRLs, MRL database, Standards, documents.

  • Poultry and eggs

    Poultry & eggs

    For poultry farmers, processors, exporters & importers. Requirements, Campylobacter strategy, codes of practice, RMP templates. (Does not include ostriches & emus - see the Meat section).

  • Retail and wholesale

    Retail & wholesale

    Food safety requirements, getting started in retail and wholesale, Food Act restrictions, selling food from stalls or markets, donating food, industry organisations, documents.

  • Seafood

    Seafood

    Growing, harvesting and processing of seafood and BMS, animal material depots for seafood, exporting, RMPs, RCS, fish names, stores (cold & dry), fees & charges, registers & lists, documents.

  • Stores (cold and dry)

    Stores (cold & dry)

    Storing animal, non-animal, organics & wine products, export & NZ sale, Animal Products Act, Specifications & Notices, Code of Practice, official assurances, export approved premises, OMAR, RMPs, FSPs.

  • Transport and wharves

    Transport & wharves

    Requirements for transport and wharves, how to find a transporter, RCSs for transport and wharves, registers & lists, documents.

  • Wine

    Wine

    Making wine, WSMPs, exporting, importing, wine verification, laboratory testing, labelling & composition, supplying wine commodities, industry organisations, fees & charges, registers & lists, documents.

  • Animal Feeds

    Animal Feeds

    Requirements for importing, manufacturing, sale and exports of animal feeds including feed and feed ingredient imports, feed manufacture, petfood, waste feeding and rendering.

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