New Zealand Food Safety is advising the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from the Kawhia region on the west coast of North Island due to the presence of paralytic shellfish toxins.
New Zealand Food Safety has launched a ‘Chicken Scene Investigators’ campaign for summer, encouraging consumer rigour around food safety over the warmer months.
New Zealand Food Safety has issued an amendment to the food notice that sets out requirements for registered food importers and imported food for sale.
New Zealand Food Safety is extending its advisory to the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from the East Coast of the North Island due to the presence of paralytic shellfish toxins.
New Zealand Food Safety is extending its advisory to the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from the East Coast of the North Island due to the presence of paralytic shellfish toxins.
New Zealand Food Safety has published an amendment to two Risk Management Programme templates comprising farm dairies and dual operator butchers.
New Zealand Food Safety is seeking feedback on its proposed 2024 New Zealand Total Diet Study, which would focus on New Zealand infants and toddlers.
New Zealand Food Safety is advising the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from the Northland east coast because of paralytic shellfish toxins.
New Zealand Food Safety is advising the public not to collect or consume shellfish gathered from Hawke Bay due to the presence of toxins.
New Zealand Food Safety is consulting on the proposed changes to the import requirements for frozen berries.
New Zealand Food Safety has issued a public health warning advising the public not to collect or consume shellfish harvested from the Raglan coastline.
The sale of a seaweed tonic with little or no branding has raised a red flag with New Zealand Food Safety.
A Canterbury meat business and its owners have been fined $84,500 for the illegal sale of unregulated homekill meat through butcher shops.
All non-organic wheat flour for bread-making must be fortified with the B-vitamin folic acid from today, according to New Zealand Food Safety.
Strengthened food safety requirements for importers came into effect yesterday.
Dr Rob Lake has been awarded the 2023 Significant Contribution to Food Safety Award, sponsored by New Zealand Food Safety, at the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology Awards.
All food businesses now need to do yearly mock recalls.
New World Aokautere at Palmerston North is recalling a specific batch of its New World Aokautere brand NZ Beef Prime Mince due to the possible presence of foreign matter, namely metal fragments.
New Zealand’s regulatory definition of mānuka honey has been validated following a reassessment and will not be changed, says New Zealand Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle.
A further clutch of food manufacturers have been caught up in the salmonella-related food safety action that started with a mass recall by Life Health Foods two weeks ago.
KiwiHarvest has worked with New Zealand Food Safety to enable the delivery of food that would otherwise have been classified as compromised following the floods in Auckland and Cyclone Gabrielle.
New Zealand Food Safety is supporting Source and Supply Co in its recall of Hobson’s brand sandwich ham due to the possible presence of Listeria.
David Trading Company has issued a recall for poppy seeds that have mistakenly been sold through the retail channel, when they were intended for the wholesale market.
Six Pams products are recalled out of precaution, while frozen berry importers place berries which can be traced back to Serbia on hold.
New Zealand Food Safety has today removed the public health warning against collecting shellfish from the Taranaki Coast – from Albatross Point to Oakura Beach.
New Zealand Food Safety is advising consumers, especially those with chronic liver damage, the elderly and pregnant people to consider extra precautions if eating frozen imported berries to minimise the risk of Hepatitis A.
New Zealand Food Safety is inviting public comment on the proposed revision of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act Guidance Document: Labelling Agricultural Chemicals.
New Zealand Food Safety is calling for public feedback on proposals to amend the New Zealand (Maximum Residue Levels for Agricultural Compounds) Food Notice.
Two unregistered raw milk operators have been fined for separate incidents of trying to circumvent the rules that regulate the sale and supply of the product.
There would be little protection against consumer outrage should a serious incursion occur, says NZFS’ DDG.
New Zealand Food Safety says the country’s high food safety standards are a testament to the hard work of thousands of Kiwis.
New Zealand Food Safety has updated its food recall guidance which it says makes it faster and easier for businesses to prepare for and conduct food recalls.
“We expect businesses to run recalls smoothly in the interests of food safety, and that has clearly not happened here,” says NZ Food Safety.
Salmonella Enteritidis has been detected at an Auckland poultry farm, leading NZ Food Safety to undertake tracing work and industry testing, as well as taking measures at the farm in question.
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