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Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes

12: What is a risk management programme

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"A plan to keep animal products safe by finding and controlling hazards"

A risk management programme is a plan designed to identify and control hazards and other risk factors when producing and processing animal material and animal products. This plan helps ensure the animal product is fit for its intended purpose. You need to consider the type of animal material or product, and how it is produced and processed.

Risk factors can relate to the animal material or product itself, or to how it is produced, processed, prepared, distributed, traded, or used. When creating a risk management programme, you must consider each type of animal material and product, each process or operation, and each place where the animal material or product is produced or processed.

A risk management programme can be based on a template, model, or code of practice, if the Director-General thinks it is valid and appropriate. You can have a single programme for each type of animal material or product, or a larger programme that covers multiple materials, products, or processes. In some cases, a risk management programme can apply to similar businesses, if the Director-General has given approval under section 17A.

A food control plan can be registered as a risk management programme, in accordance with section 34. You can have a risk management programme that applies to one or more comparable animal product businesses, or parts of businesses, if the Director-General has given approval.

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Part 2Risk management programmes

12What is a risk management programme

  1. A risk management programme is a programme designed to both—

  2. identify; and
    1. control, manage, and eliminate or minimise—
        1. hazards and other risk factors in relation to the production and processing of animal material and animal products in order to ensure that the resulting animal product is fit for intended purpose.

      1. Risk factors may relate to the nature of the animal material or product concerned, or to the production, processing, preparation, distribution, trade, or intended use of the animal material or product.

      2. Risk management programmes are to be individually tailored for each animal product business, having regard to—

      3. each type of animal material and animal product that the business produces or processes; and
        1. each type of process or operation that is applied to the animal material or product; and
          1. each set of premises or place in which the animal material or product is produced or processed.

            1. Nothing in subsection (3) prevents a risk management programme for a particular business or part of a business from being based on a template, a model, or a code of practice, if in the view of the Director-General the template, model, or code of practice is valid and appropriate for businesses of that kind.

            2. A risk management programme for each type of animal material or product, each type of process or operation, and each set of premises or place may be formulated as a single stand-alone programme, or may form part of a larger risk management programme that applies to 1 or more materials, products, processes, operations, places, or premises within the same business or operation.

            3. A risk management programme may also apply to 1 or more comparable animal product businesses or parts of businesses in cases where the Director-General has given approval under section 17A.

            4. A food control plan may be registered as a risk management programme in accordance with section 34.

            Notes
            • Section 12 heading: amended, on , by section 64(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
            • Section 12(3A): inserted, on , by section 8(1) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
            • Section 12(4A): inserted, on , by section 8(2) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
            • Section 12(4A): amended, on , by section 64(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
            • Section 12(5): amended, on , by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).