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MAF & RNZSPCA To Investigate Poultry Welfare
Thursday, 5 April 2001, 11:03 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RNZSPCA) are to investigate an allegation relating to the way that Tegel Poultry destroyed 5000 chicks, unwanted in the egg ... More >>
NZ's BSE Free Status
Wednesday, 4 April 2001, 4:24 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The European Commission last week again acknowledged New Zealand's bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) free status. More >>
Religious Slaughter Discussion Paper Released
Wednesday, 4 April 2001, 10:33 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) has released a discussion paper on religious slaughter. More >>
MAF Agency Achieves International Accreditation
Wednesday, 4 April 2001, 9:47 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Verification Agency (MAF VA) has been formally accredited to the ISO 17020 Quality Standard. The Agency’s General Manager, Jos Goebbels believes achieving this accreditation is a world first for a government ... More >>
MAF To Reassess Feeding Food Waste To Pigs
Friday, 30 March 2001, 9:43 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, together with the Pork Industry Board is re-assessing the risks and management of feeding food waste to pigs. More >>
MAF Tests Emergency Exotic Disease Response
Monday, 26 March 2001, 2:45 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's exotic disease response systems are being tested this week with a simulated outbreak of the serious poultry disease Newcastle disease. More >>
NCDI Releases Public Discussion Documents
Friday, 23 March 2001, 12:48 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
Upper Hutt residents and the country's farmers are being given the opportunity to comment on proposals by the National Centre for Disease Investigation to import new organisms into its new containment laboratory at Wallaceville. More >>
Dry Cow Therapies And Bobby Calves
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 4:45 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is responding to concerns expressed by farmers in relation to dry cow therapies and chemical residues in bobby calves. More >>
Foot And Mouth Awareness Campaign Begins
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 10:31 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has taken the first step in a two-pronged campaign to increase public awareness of foot and mouth disease, with a mail-out to some 178,000 rural box holders. More >>
Exotic Disease Outbreak Simulation Planned By MAF
Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 2:10 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
Response systems for exotic animal disease will be tested next week (26-30 March) in a simulated outbreak of highly virulent Newcastle disease, which is one of the important exotic diseases of concern for the New Zealand poultry industry. More >>
Recently banned products from EU currently safe
Monday, 19 March 2001, 9:30 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
Recently banned products from the European Union currently on the shelves of New Zealand supermarkets are safe for consumers to eat. More >>
Woman apprehended for allegedly smuggling eggs
Monday, 19 March 2001, 9:28 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
A forty year old woman was apprehended at Auckland International Airport yesterday afternoon after allegedly trying to smuggle live exotic birds' eggs into the country. More >>
Survey For Red Imported Fire Ants Underway
Wednesday, 14 March 2001, 3:18 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in consultation with the Department of Conservation, the Ministry of Health and Auckland Regional Council is conducting a delimiting survey at the Auckland International Airport after red imported fire ants were found there ... More >>
MAF Suspends Animal Product Imports From Entire EU
Wednesday, 14 March 2001, 3:17 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has placed a temporary suspension on the importation of certain animal products from European Union countries following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in France. More >>
Two people prosecuted for making false declaration
Thursday, 8 March 2001, 5:55 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has prosecuted two people this month for making false quarantine declarations at the border. More >>
Second Contingent Of NZ Vets Heads To The UK
Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 2:19 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
Eight veterinarians from New Zealand will leave for the United Kingdom tomorrow to assist the efforts to control the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. More >>
Foot and Mouth Disease ¡V continual exposure
Wednesday, 28 February 2001, 5:35 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The threat of foot and mouth entering New Zealand from Britain is the same as the threat from any other county where foot and mouth is present, says the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. More >>
Kiwi Skills Help in UK Foot-and-Mouth Crisis
Tuesday, 27 February 2001, 9:53 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
A team of four people is currently in London, providing specialist skills to contribute to the management of Britain's foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. More >>
Meat Imports Restricted From Britain
Monday, 26 February 2001, 10:05 am | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is restricting the importation of what little meat and meat products there are coming into the country from Britain after the foot and mouth outbreak there. More >>
Southern Saltmarsh Mosquito In Kaipara Harbour
Thursday, 22 February 2001, 4:52 pm | Ministry Of Agriculture And Forestry
Mosquito larvae found in the Rodney District of the Kaipara Harbour during routine surveillance last week, have been confirmed as being the exotic southern saltmarsh mosquito, Aedes camptorhynchus. More >>
