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New Zealand food businesses have welcomed a
trio of new food safety tools, designed to make
it faster, easier and more affordable to follow the
rules and keep consumers safe.
Food Safety Minister Damien O’Connor launched
Remote Verification, My Food Rules and My
Food Plan in Nelson last month.
“Food safety is about people – so everyone has
a role to play in food safety and in the spirit of
manaakitanga,” deputy director-general, New
Zealand Food Safety, Bryan Wilson says.
“At the heart of these innovations was listening
to what people need, and finding the simplest
way to provide it, with a particular focus on
removing compliance challenges faced by small
and regional domestic food businesses.
“These innovative tools were co-designed with
food businesses, councils and verifiers and
reflect a modern and common-sense approach
to food safety regulation.
“Remote Verification is believed to be a worldfirst
for regulatory food safety, which will reduce
the need for verifiers to travel to businesses in
regional, rural or other hard-to-reach locations.
“Using Skype on a smartphone or other device,
Remote Verification could save remote food
businesses substantial time and cost.
“The new online tools My Food Rules and My
Food Plan transform the functionality of online
food business registration – with innovative, time
and money-saving solutions.
“My Food Rules is the fastest and easiest
way for food businesses to find out what food
rules they need to follow – the right plan or
programme, the right Registration Authority and
the right verifier.
“An output of My Food Rules is the new, custom
Food Control Plan option for businesses who
make high-risk foods and need to have a plan
that covers multiple Food Act registrations –
called My Food Plan.
“This is a game-changer for food businesses,
because instead of potentially spending up to
$25,000 and up to nine months developing a
custom plan from scratch, they can have a preevaluated
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For more details, visit www.foodsafety.govt.nz/
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New food safety tools make it easy
to follow the rules.
18 AUGUST 2019
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