__NOTOC__ New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS), or Haumaru Kai Aotearoa, is the

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...

government body responsible for food safety, and is the controlling authority for imports and exports of

food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is in ...

and food-related products. In April 2012 it was merged into the Ministry for Primary Industries. The NZFSA administered legislation covering: * food for sale in New Zealand * primary processing of

animal Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage ...

products and official assurances related to their export * exports of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae excl ...

products and the controls surrounding registration, and * use of

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peopl ...

compounds and veterinary medicines. In July 2007 the NZFSA was separated from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to form a new Public Service Department. On 1 July 2010, the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) was amalgamated back into the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.About FSA
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Food Bill 160-2

Food Bill 160-2 was introduced on 26 May 2010 to make some fundamental changesfoodsafety.govt.nz Proposed Food Bill
/ref> to New Zealand's domestic food regulatory regime. Significantly, for an export-led economic recovery for New Zealand, the domestic food regulatory regime is the platform for exports.Regulatory Impact Statement 2009
/ref> The New Zealand domestic standard is used as the basis for negotiating equivalence arrangements with trading partners. This minimizes the excessive importing country requirements that may be imposed but which do not go to food safety. If passed into law and fully implemented, it would replace th

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Food Bill will also make consequential amendments to th

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to improve the interface of regulatory processes across food sectors. MAF (through NZFSA) managed New Zealand's participation in

Codex Alimentarius The Codex Alimentarius () is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations relating to food, food productio ...

and set strategic priorities which ensure that Codex standards have the widest possible application.New Zealand and Codex
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References

External links

New Zealand Food Safety Authority
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Food Bill 160-2

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