A Marlborough aquaculture company that illegally moved nearly 80 tonnes of live green-lipped mussels and over 6,700 individual pacific oysters from a containment zone, has been fined $24,000. A ...

A Queenstown helicopter company has been fined $12,000 for illegally taking and selling recreationally caught crayfish to hotel guests. This was the final step in a successful prosecution by the ...

Find out why additives are used, common types, and how they're regulated.

If you have a food business, it must be verified to make sure the food you sell is safe to eat. Find out how to get your restaurant, cafe, or other food business verified.

Holmes, S.J.; Dunn, M.R. (2026). Length-based spawning potential ratio (LB-SPR) assessment of silver warehou (Seriolella punctata). New Zealand Fisheries Assessment Report 2026/36. 33 p. Silver ...

If you want to fish recreationally in New Zealand, you're legally required to follow the fishing rules. These change often and are different around the country. Check your local rules each time before ...

Use this form to make a protected discloure if you believe there has been serious wrongdoing by the organisation you work for, or previously worked for, and this is an industry regulated by MPI.

* 'Median wait time' is how long it took for 50% of applications to be processed. 'Most completed within' is based on 80% of applications processed. Both figures are calculated using working days ...

We have had no further detections of H5 bird flu [since 17 July 2026]. There is no evidence of any mass mortality in wildlife. There has been no detection in poultry. We continue to have a strong ...

We have had no further detections of H5 bird flu. If you see 3 or more sick or dead wild birds in a group, avoid contact, record what you see and report it to the exotic pest and disease hotline on ...

Food products are recalled from shops and supermarkets if they are unsafe to eat. Check the list of recalled food and find out how to make a food complaint.

An annual report by New Zealand Food Safety identifies the recall of 27 products due to metal fragments in peanut ingredients as last year’s largest food safety recall. The "Consumer-level food ...