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Animal Products Act 1999

Preliminary provisions

2: Object of Act

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"Keeping people, animals, and animal products safe and healthy in New Zealand and overseas."

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The object of this Act is to help you understand how to keep people and animals healthy. This is done by making sure animal products are safe to use. The Act also helps New Zealand animal products get into other countries by having rules in place to ensure they are safe. You need to know the Act has two main goals: to keep you and animals safe from harm, and to help New Zealand trade animal products with other countries. The Act does this by making sure animal products are safe to use and by having rules to follow when trading with other countries.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

2Object of Act

  1. The object of this Act is to—

  2. minimise and manage risks to human or animal health arising from the production and processing of animal material and products by instituting measures that ensure so far as is practicable that all traded animal products are fit for their intended purpose; and
    1. facilitate the entry of animal material and products into overseas markets by providing the controls and mechanisms needed to give and to safeguard official assurances for entry into those markets.