Aug 30, 2021 | Latest News
Essential Businesses can now apply for permission to cross the Auckland COVID border when the rest of the country moves to Alert Level 3 from 11.59pm tonight. Businesses with workers needing to cross the boundary can apply for Business Travel Documents if they meet...
Aug 30, 2021 | Katherine Rich Comments
There’s been a lot to take in from the Commerce Commission’s draft report on their market study into New Zealand’s grocery sector. There’s no doubt everyone wants lower grocery prices, and that’s what was behind the Government’s instruction to the commission: was...
Aug 19, 2021 | Katherine Rich Comments
The New Zealand economy has been built on the export of food, kicked off in a big way by the first successful shipment of frozen meat on the ‘Dunedin’ to Great Britain from Totara, in Otago, in 1882. Of course, there was exporting before that, with the first trades...
Aug 18, 2021 | Latest News
The virus that causes COVID-19 is not a direct food safety concern, according to updated guidance from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. The guidance replaces interim guidance from the FAO and World Health Organisation on coronavirus and food...
Aug 9, 2021 | Submissions
Regulatory Redesign of Animal Products and Wine Regulations – to Ministry for Primary Industries: Document
Aug 6, 2021 | Katherine Rich Comments
From November, some product and sales tickets in the fresh and deli sections of supermarkets will need to be updated. That’s when the first new regulations on Country of Origin labelling of food products come into force. In both the supermarket chains and independents...
