Resources
Food Registration Links
Changing, closing, or selling a food business:
Changing or growing your business:
If you want to change or grow your business, this flow chart can help you decide what to do.
People planning to change their business need to inform their registration authority. This will either be New Zealand Food Safety or their local council. Click here for a list of local councils.
If you're using a custom food control plan (including a My Food Plan), refer to Change your custom FCP.
Closing or selling your business:
If you want to close or sell your business, check this fact sheet.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) website provides for information about food registration and resources. Click here to find out more.
Registering your food business:
1 - Food Safety Rules
Use this tool to answer questionnaire to get your food control plan or national programme.
2 - Register a Food Business
Use this link to follow the registration steps for food control plan or national programme.
3 - Template Forms
Use this link to find optional template forms for food control plan or national programme.
Food Labelling and Composition
Here are some useful food labelling and composition links.
Click here for Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
Click here for labelling and composition food and drinks.
Click here for Food Additive book.
Click here for nutrition information panel calculator.
Click here for allergen declarations, warnings, and advisory statements on food labels.
Other Helpful MPI Information
MPI Public Register
MPI Public Register of businesses operating under food control plans and national programmes. This is useful to find the food registration details for your suppliers. Click here to find out more.
Template FCP
MPI link that lists the different template food control plans and provides the link to the My Food Rules where after completing the questionnaire you can download a pre-evaluated customised food control plan. Click here to find out more.
MPI Food Notice Requirements for Food Control Plans and National Programmes. Click here to find out more.
MPI Food Notice Requirements for FCP and NP
Food Recall
MPI food recall guidance. Click here to find out more.
MPI Listeria Resources
MPI Listeria resources. Click here to find out more.
Food Notice – Maximum Residues for Agricultural Compounds. Click here to find out more.
Food Notice – Maximum Residues for Agricultural Compounds
Importing Food
MPI Food Importing Requirements. Click here to find out more.
Exporting Food
MPI information on exporting food and beverages. Click here to find out more.
MPI Food Safety Codes of Practice
MPI Food Safety Codes of Practice provides some useful resources. Click here to find out more.
Hazard Database
MPI food hazard database. Click here to find out more.
Codex Alimentarius
General Principles of Food Hygiene CXC 1-1969. Adopted in 1969. Amended in 1999. Revised in 1997, 2003, 2020, 2022, and 2023. New format in 2023. Click here to download the document in it’s new format. As well as the new format, the latest updates relate to Annex IV, Figure 1 and Table 1 which introduce tools to determine the critical control points in a hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) system.
Animal Products Notices Production, Supply and Processing
Animal Products Notices Production, Supply and Processing. Click here to find out more.
Food Shelf-Life
Shelf-Life Guidelines
MPI guidance to help determine the shelf-life of food. Click here to find out more.
FSANZ Compendium of Microbiological Criteria for Food
Resource for food tests and limits. Click here to find out more.
Other Useful Links
A national working group of health inspectors, food safety specialists, and industry fermentation experts worked together to create guidance on fermented foods.
The guidelines include fermented vegetables, sauerkraut, kimchi, yoghurt, plant based cheese, Natto, tempeh, koiji & miso, kombucha, kefir and others. Click here to find out more.
These fermented food guidelines are available on the BC (British Columbia) Centre for Disease Control website.
Allergen Management Guide (Australian Food & Grocery Council)
Resources for food allergen management. Click here to find out more.
Food Safety Culture
ANZFS resources for food safety culture. Click here to find out more.
NZIFST
New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology. Click here to find out more.