Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes - Relationship between Food Act regime and risk management programmes

33: Implications of failure to elect in case of animal product which is food whose export requires an official assurance

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"What happens if you don't follow the rules when exporting food animal products that need official approval"

If you are exporting animal products that are food, you need to follow certain rules. You must make sure the product meets the requirements for official assurances under the Animal Products Act. If you do not meet these requirements, you cannot get an official assurance for the product. You have to operate under a registered risk management programme or a food control plan that is registered as a risk management programme, as stated in section 34, and meet any export requirements. This means you must do what the law says to get an official assurance, which is important for exporting animal products that are food.

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32: Secondary processors of animal products which are food may elect to operate under risk management programme, or

"Food makers using animal products can choose a special safety plan instead of following Food Act rules"

34: Alternate or intermittent use of risk management programmes and food control plans, or

"Using a food control plan sometimes like a risk management programme"

Part 2Risk management programmes
Relationship between Food Act regime and risk management programmes

33Implications of failure to elect in case of animal product which is food whose export requires an official assurance

Where a secondary processor operates under the Food Act regime rather than under a risk management programme in relation to any animal product that is for export, and any export requirements apply to that product,—
the product must meet the requirements imposed by or under this Act for the giving of official assurances, if any official assurance is to be given under this Act in relation to the product; and
if it does not, it cannot be the subject of an official assurance under this Act.

For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), the secondary processor must operate under either a registered risk management programme or a food control plan that is registered as a risk management programme in accordance with section 34, and meet any export requirements.

Notes

Section 33(1): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 85(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 33(2): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 85(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 33(2): amended, on 1 March 2016, by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).
Section 33(2): amended, on 26 September 2002, by section 22 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).