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Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson today represented New Zealand at the Forum on Food Regulation in Melbourne to consider the Forum’s response to the Independent Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy.

“I welcome the Forum’s response, which follows considerable work over the past year to consider how the report’s recommendations should be addressed,” Ms Wilkinson says.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson today released a discussion document on options to continue farm gate sales of raw drinking milk.

“Selling small quantities of raw milk direct to people at the farm gate is a long standing tradition and there is support for that to continue,” Ms Wilkinson says.

“At present, the law lets farmers sell a daily maximum of five litres of raw milk from their farm to people to drink and give to their family.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson says she is concerned that the Green Party is endorsing misinformation about the impacts of a new Food Bill.

“For some time anonymous agitators have been spreading false information on the internet regarding the Food Bill and despite initially countering their views, Sue Kedgley has now buckled in order to chase their votes because it is an election year.

“Small growers who share or trade their produce with neighbours or who sell direct to consumers have nothing to fear from the new Food Bill.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson today welcomed the appointments of Andrew McKenzie and Neil Walker as New Zealand’s new members of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand board.

Andrew McKenzie has a background in veterinary public health and food safety, food regulation, international trade and financial management. 

In particular, he has an extensive knowledge of the New Zealand food regulation system as he led the New Zealand Food Safety Authority from its inception in 2002 until 2010. 

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Minister of Trade Tim Groser and Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson have welcomed news from Malaysia on the signing of an arrangement that takes an important first step towards improving access to Malaysia for New Zealand halal meat.

The arrangement, signed this week, sets out how New Zealand will meet Malaysia’s halal requirements.

  • Tim Groser
  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety
  • Trade

The Food Bill has passed its first reading and will head to select committee with unanimous support, says Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson. 

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson today welcomed the appointment of Tony Nowell as New Zealand's new member of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) board.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

A new Bill that overhauls the outdated Food Act 1981 has been introduced to Parliament, Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson announced today.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority will be merged into the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, say Minister of Agriculture and Biosecurity David Carter and Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson.

  • David Carter
  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Agriculture
  • Biosecurity
  • Food Safety

Proposals for rolling out new food laws over a five year period have gone out for consultation, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson announced today.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

The number of New Zealanders getting sick from campylobacter has taken a dive following a concerted effort to combat the bug in chicken meat, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson said today.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson took the opportunity to display a clean pair of hands at Belfast School today.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Chinese officials will learn from New Zealand's world-class food safety regime through a new scholarship arrangement, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson announced today.

Ms Wilkinson and th

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson leaves New Zealand today for a week of meetings with Australian and Chinese counterparts.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Conservation
  • Food Safety
  • Immigration

The Government will undertake a complete overhaul of the Food Act 1981 to make it more relevant to New Zealand businesses and consumers, Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson announced today.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Cheesemakers will be allowed to craft a range of raw or unpasteurised milk products for sale in domestic and international markets under new standards to be introduced in October, says Minister for

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Mandatory fortification of folic acid in bread will be deferred until May 2012, with the focus now on introducing a targeted voluntary programme, Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson announced t

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

A discussion document proposing that the mandatory fortification of folic acid in bread be deferred until May 2012 will be released on Wednesday, says Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

The Government sympathises with the New Zealand Association of Bakers' frustration over Labour's legacy of mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid, says Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilki

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

The Government will not convene a group of experts to discuss the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) review of the science of A1 milk, Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson announced today.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

New Zealand wineries can now have wine destined for Europe tested by laboratories closer to home instead of being sent to Auckland for analysis, Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson announced to

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

A new food safety guide designed for marae cooks will be officially launched at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia tomorrow.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety

Minister Kate Wilkinson will meet Australian Ministers and senior government officials when she visits Canberra this week.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety
  • Labour

Melamine has been detected in an imported ingredient used to fortify food with iron in New Zealand, but consumers are not at any risk, says Minister for Food Safety Kate Wilkinson.

  • Kate Wilkinson
  • Food Safety