Resources
Food Compliance and 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 the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) or their local council. Here is 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, compliance and resources. The MPI Food Business page provides more information.
Registering your food business:
1 - Food Safety Rules
Use the MPI My Food Rules tool to get the right information for your Food Control Plan or national programme.
2 - Register a Food Business
See this MPI page for more information about registering a food business under the Food Act.
3 - Template Forms
|The MPI Forms and documents page has optional template forms for Food Act control plans and national programmes.
Here are some optional template forms:
Record blanks (template) for Simply Safe and Suitable (PDF)
Record blanks (template) for Simply Safe and Suitable (DOCX)
Record blanks (template) for Simply Safe and Suitable (XLSX)
Food Labelling and Composition
Here are some useful food labelling and composition links.
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.
MPI Food Notice Requirements for Food Control Plans and National Programmes.
MPI Food Notice Requirements for FCP and NP
Food Recall
Read about the industry requirements for food recalls, with procedures and templates to help you develop and follow a recall plan for your business at MPI food recall guidance.
MPI Listeria Resources
MPI Listeria guidance for the food industry.
Food Notice – Maximum Residues for Agricultural Compounds.
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.
MPI Food Safety Codes of Practice
MPI Food Safety Codes of Practice provides some useful resources.
Hazard Database
MPI food hazard database.
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. 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.
Food Shelf-Life
Shelf-Life Guidelines
MPI guidance on how to determine the shelf-life of food.
FSANZ Compendium of Microbiological Criteria for Food
Food Standards Australia New Zealand provide a Compendium of Microbiological Criteria for Food resource for information about food tests and limits.
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.
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
FSANZ resources for food safety culture.
NZIFST
New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology. Click here to find out more.