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Consultation on Campylobacter performance targets open
Monday, 30 March 2015, 11:17 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is asking for feedback on a range of proposed options for testing of Campylobacter in poultry. More >>
Māori farming success recognised
Friday, 27 March 2015, 3:03 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The talent on display at this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy competition highlights the vast potential for Māori Agribusiness, says the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). More >>
Operation Concord Media update, Thursday 19 March 2015
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 1:31 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) would like to thank New Zealanders for their continued vigilance in checking infant and other formula products they purchase for signs of suspected tampering. More >>
MPI trials super-sized beagle
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 11:34 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
They look like a super-sized beagle and they may soon be working at the border to protect New Zealand from imported pests and diseases. More >>
Public ideas sought on management of blue cod fishery
Friday, 13 March 2015, 11:07 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Blue Cod Management Group is encouraging the local community to attend drop-in sessions in Picton and Nelson next week to learn more about the review of the Marlborough Sounds blue cod fishing rules. More >>
Queensland Fruit Fly: Operations update 12 12/3/15
Thursday, 12 March 2015, 12:54 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
• There have been no further detections since the weekend (7/8 March). See Operations update 9 March 2015 / More >>
MPI closes online fish black market
Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 2:23 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) compliance officers today terminated an operation against four groups in Auckland who were selling black market seafood. More >>
Paengaroa pair fined $1250 each for paua conviction
Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 11:18 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
A haul of 102 undersized paua from Maketu cost a couple of local Paengaroa men $1250 each after they pleaded guilty in Tauranga District Court (5 March, 2015). More >>
MPI supporting Police with infant formula threat response
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 4:07 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is working closely with Police to respond to a criminal threat to contaminate infant and other formula in an apparent protest over the use of 1080 in pest control. More >>
Queensland Fruit Fly: Operations update 11
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 1:12 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
• There have been no further detections since the weekend (7/8 March). See previous update. More >>
Update 10: fruit fly larvae found in four properties
Monday, 9 March 2015, 4:22 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
• Over the weekend (7/8 March), MPI’s field laboratory detected Queensland fruit fly larvae in windfall fruit collected from two properties nearby to the original affected property. More >>
Sailor convicted after biosecurity ramp-up in Northland
Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 2:24 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A sailor who appeared in the Kaikohe District Court last week (17 February) has become the first person convicted for deliberately concealing biosecurity goods on a visiting yacht. More >>
Auckland Queensland fruit fly - Operations update 2
Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 1:41 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The total number of adult Queensland fruit flies detected in Auckland stands at five. Following the detection yesterday of a male fly in a trap, fruit from the property with the trap and a neighbouring property has been examined and there were no signs ... More >>
Sailor convicted after biosecurity ramp-up in Northland
Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 12:56 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Sailor convicted after biosecurity ramp-up in Northland A sailor who appeared in the Kaikohe District Court last week (17 February) has become the first person convicted for deliberately concealing biosecurity goods on a visiting yacht. The conviction ... More >>
Vessel patrol results in seizures of 14 gill nets
Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 11:46 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
Earlier this month the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) conducted a vessel patrol on the Wairoa River and seized 14 recreational gill nets. More >>
MPI confirms fourth fruit fly find in controlled area
Monday, 23 February 2015, 11:00 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries has confirmed a fourth fruit fly in Grey Lynn and believes it to be part of the same localised population as previous detections. More >>
Good progress in Auckland fruit fly operation
Thursday, 19 February 2015, 12:51 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Field work is ramping up in Auckland today in response to the detection earlier this week of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Grey Lynn. More >>
Auckland fruit fly find under investigation
Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 2:27 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
Auckland fruit fly find under investigation The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn. The fly was collected from a fruit fly trap ... More >>
Quarantine manager convicted for misleading MPI
Friday, 13 February 2015, 4:07 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
The manager of a registered quarantine facility was convicted of giving false information to a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) Quarantine Officer, in Manukau District Court this week (11 February 2015). More >>
Community work and loss of car in paua conviction
Friday, 13 February 2015, 3:47 pm | Ministry For Primary Industries
A Pukekohe man was sentenced today (13 February) to community service and had another person’s car confiscated for taking over 200 paua from the Tairua area on the Coromandel Peninsula. More >>
