News related to Draft for consultation - Policy for responding to pests and diseases (risk organisms)
- Mobile X-ray machine another tool for MAF biosecurity - 11 August 2010
A new mobile x-ray machine jointly developed by MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) and an Otahuhu sheet-metal company started work this week in the Auckland area.
- Six New MAF Biosecurity Detector Dogs Start Work - 5 August 2010
Six new MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) detector dogs started work this week at Auckland and Christchurch airports and the International Mail Centre in Auckland.
- MAF launches Biosecurity New Zealand - 1 November 2004
A new agency called Biosecurity New Zealand is about to start making life tougher for pests and bugs.
- New Zealander elected president of World Animal Health organisation - 26 May 2006
Biosecurity New Zealand head Dr Barry O'Neil has been elected president of the world organisation for animal health, the Office International des Epizooties (OIE), at a meeting in Paris on Friday (26 May).
- Feedback sought on draft code of welfare for llamas and alpacas in New Zealand - 27 July 2011
Minimum standards of animal welfare and recommended best practices for everyone responsible for camelids are outlined in a draft code of welfare released for consultation by the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) today.
- Draft code of welfare for dogs released for comment - 17 September 2007
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) is seeking comment on a new draft code of welfare for dogs released today. The code outlines the minimum standards of welfare and recommended best practices for anyone responsible for dogs. All dogs, including pets, show dogs, working dogs or those used for breeding or sport, are covered by this code.
- Draft import health standards for pig meat and pig meat products released for consultation - 12 November 2007
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAF BNZ) today issued, for public consultation, four draft Import Heath Standards (IHSs) developed for pig meat and pig meat products. The draft standards are based on an import risk analysis on porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus in pig meat.
- MAF Biosecurity New Zealand seeks views on ballast water controls - 31 October 2007
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) is seeking submissions from interested parties on managing the risk of marine pest organisms being introduced to New Zealand in ships' ballast water.
- Feedback sought on draft code of welfare for dairy cattle - 3 November 2006
Minimum standards of welfare and recommended best practices for anyone responsible for dairy cattle are outlined in a new draft code of welfare to be released by the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) tomorrow.
- New Zealanders comfortable with the use of animals for research, testing and teaching - 13 September 2006
A national survey into New Zealanders’ attitudes towards the use of animals in research, testing and teaching (RTT), commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), has provided important new information about what New Zealanders really think about the use of animals in RTT.
- New NAIT mandatory tagging date announced - 5 September 2011
New Zealand’s mandatory national animal identification and tracing (NAIT) scheme is set to commence for cattle on 1 July next year (2012), NAIT Ltd Chief Executive Russell Burnard announced today.
- NAIT Animal ID System on track - 15 December 2010
NAIT and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), announced today that they have entered into discussions with the Australian National Livestock Identification System Limited (NLIS Ltd) regarding the information system that will support New Zealand's National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.
- Biosecurity Summit takes global approach - 6 November 2006
How climate change will affect human health risk is one of the topics being discussed at the fourth annual Biosecurity Summit being held in Wellington on 7-8 November 2006.
- New Zealand to host World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Conference - 24 October 2007
For the second time since joining the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 1925, New Zealand will host the OIE Regional Commission for Asia, the Far East and Oceania conference.
- Know the Enemy, Public armed to spot newly introduced pests - 11 June 2005
It only takes one introduced pest to damage our country and one of us to stop that pest.
- Biosecurity New Zealand checks Coastal Classic Yachts - 18 October 2005
Biosecurity New Zealand is taking action to ensure yachts leaving Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour as part of this weekend’s HSBC Coastal Classic yacht race are free of the invasive seasquirt, the clubbed tunicate.
- Farm and herd owner information enhances FarmsOnLine - 11 October 2010
Some farm and herd owner information held by the Animal Health Board (AHB) will shortly be added to the Ministry of Agriculture’s (MAF) national rural property register, following consultation with cattle and deer farmers.
- Termites eradicated - 9 August 2011
An incursion of Australian subterranean termites has been declared eradicated from a site in Richmond, Nelson.
- Detector dog ‘Watchman’ has success at Auckland International Airport - 28 July 2011
On the day that Dog Squad returned to our television screens, our detector dog programme at the border has again proved its worth, with another successful biosecurity interception of melon halves and Cape Gooseberries.
- Porthole offers view of marine pests in our waters - 26 July 2011
A new web portal offers a previously unseen record of the marine pests that threaten New Zealand’s marine environment.
- Range of Factors at Play in Oyster Deaths - 8 December 2010
Preliminary test results have identified some of the factors involved in the current increase in deaths of young oysters on upper North Island marine farms, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Response Manager Dr Richard Norman says.
- MAF and Marine Farmers Investigate Oyster Deaths - 2 December 2010
The New Zealand Oyster Industry Association for Aquaculture New Zealand and MAF Biosecurity New Zealand are working together to investigate unexplained juvenile Pacific Oyster deaths on marine farms in the upper North Island.
- Milestone reached with end to aerial mozzie treatments - 23 December 2008
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) says good progress is being made towards the elimination of the southern saltmarsh mosquito in Coromandel with the end this week of aerial treatments.