Top Overseas Speakers at Food Safety Conference
NEW ZEALAND - The world’s big guns of food safety will be in Auckland for two days in September for the New Zealand Food...

NZ Pork Imports Under More Scrutiny
NEW ZEALAND - Federated Farmers says its concerns over biosecurity standards for pork imports have been vindicated by an...

Independent Panel Asks MAF to Restart on Pork
NEW ZEALAND - An independent expert panel has given twenty-nine recommendations for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry...

New Zealand Works with China on Food Safety
NEW ZEALAND - Chinese senior food safety officials have just left the country after a two-week food safety study programme...

NZFSA Draws up New Code on Poultry Processing
NEW ZEALAND: The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) is drawing up a new Code of Practice, and it has now published...

GM Feed Does Not Make GM Chicken
NEW ZEALAND - Following a warning to a poultry company last week, a scientist says that chickens fed genetically modified...

New Zealand Reports No Salmonella in Poultry Meat
NEW ZEALAND - Not a single sample of poultry meat has been found to be contaminated with Salmonella in the second quarter...

Is New Zealand Pork on the Christmas Menu?
NEW ZEALAND - “Is New Zealand pork on the Christmas menu?” asks Angela McLeod, President of the New Zealand Federation of...

New Zealand Has Cut Campylobacter Cases by Half
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand leads the world in controlling campylobacter, according to the country's food safety authority....

Survey to Look at Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
NEW ZEALAND - The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has embarked on a new project as part of efforts to keep down...

NZ Pork Import Plan Gets Industry Worried
NEW ZEALAND - A proposal to allow the importation of raw pork meat from overseas could devastate the industry, southern business...

NZ Pork Industry Warns Against Raw Imports
NEW ZEALAND - While cheaper pork could be on the cards for New Zealand, the country's pork industry says any discounts may...

Listeria a Threat for Vulnerable New Zealanders
NEW ZEALAND - In the wake of concerns over a suspected outbreak and a general increase in cases of listeriosis in Australia,...

Cheap Imports Threaten New Zealand's Fisheries
NEW ZEALAND - New rules which allow the import of frozen fillets of Vietnamese catfish or basa, a cheap species farmed in...

Fine for Unhygienic Poultry Processor
NEW ZEALAND - A Auckland poultry processor whose company slaughtered thousands of poultry in filthy conditions has been heavily...

Campaign Group Makes Waves over 'GM-Free' Claim
NEW ZEALAND - Anti-genetic engineering campaigning group, GE-Free New Zealand, is warning consumers that chicken marketed...

Pork Consumption Steady Despite H1N1 Influenza
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand consumers have continued to buy New Zealand pork, bacon and ham despite the recent A/H1NI variant...

NZFSA Strategy Fights Foodborne Salmonella
NEW ZEALAND - The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has launched its plan to reduce the incidence of Salmonella...

New Import Health Standards for Pig Meat
NEW ZEALAND - MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) today issued provisional Import Heath Standards (IHSs) for pig meat, pig...

Provisional Import Health Standards for Pig Meat
NEW ZEALAND - MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) today issued provisional Import Heath Standards (IHSs) for pig meat, pig...