__NOTOC__ New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS; ) was the New Zealand government body responsible for food safety, and is the controlling authority for imports and exports of food and food-related products. In April 2012, it was merged into the

Ministry for Primary Industries The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI; ) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing, managing and regulating the farming, fishing, food, animal welfare, biosecurity, and forestry sectors of New Zealand's primary ...

. The NZFSA administered legislation covering: * food for sale in New Zealand * primary processing of

animal Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Biology, biological Kingdom (biology), kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, ...

products and official assurances related to their export * exports of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

products and the controls surrounding registration, and * use of

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

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. 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

and th

Food Bill will also make consequential amendments to th

and th

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

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

and set strategic priorities which ensure that Codex standards have the widest possible application.New Zealand and Codex
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Food Bill 160-2

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