{"topic_id":"NZ_ANIMAL_PRODUCTS_ACT_1999","category":"nz-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: NZ_ANIMAL_PRODUCTS_ACT_1999\ncategory: nz-2026\ntitle: \"New Zealand Animal Products Act 1999 — animal-material / processed-animal-product framework (primary legislation)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Animal Products Act 1999, New Zealand Parliament (legislation.govt.nz). First-hand full text obtained 2026-08-18 via headless chromium on the Tokyo relay (483 KB normalized body). English original. This Act defines 'animal material' and 'animal product' and is the primary statute under which the processing of animal-derived pet-food ingredients (e.g. meat meal, animal fat) is regulated in New Zealand.\"\nsource_file:\n  - \"pdf-raw/nz-2026/legislation_animal_products_act_1999.html\"\nsource_type: official_statute_html\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-18\ntokens_estimated: 460\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 4\nsource_document: \"Animal Products Act 1999 (NZ), full consolidated text\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"New Zealand Parliament — legislation.govt.nz\"\n  title: \"Animal Products Act 1999\"\n  url: \"https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0093/latest/DLM33502.html\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-18\"\n  ref: \"Animal Products Act 1999 (NZ)\"\n  doc_type: \"official statute (primary)\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:statute\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-18\n---\n\n# New Zealand Animal Products Act 1999 — animal-material / processed-animal-product framework\n\n**Primary source (first-hand, landed):** *Animal Products Act 1999*, New Zealand Parliament. This Act defines the scope of \"animal material\" and \"animal product\" and is the **primary statute** under which the processing of animal-derived pet-food ingredients (meat meal, animal fat, etc.) is regulated. The English text below is the verbatim C1-checked source.\n\n## Key definitions (verbatim from the Act)\n\n- **Animal material:** \"animal material means any live or dead animal, or any tissue or other material taken or derived from an animal\"\n- **Animal product:** \"animal product , or product , means any animal material that has been processed (other than simply transported or stored in such a way as not to involve any alteration to its nature) for th…\"\n\n## Relevance to pet food\n\nPet food that contains processed animal-derived ingredients (the common case for cat/dog food) is an \"animal product\" under this Act and subject to its processing, risk-management programme, and official assurance provisions. Combined with the ACVM Act 1997 (additives/medicated feeds) and MPI's Petfood Processing Operational Code (processing rules — honest-pending, see ACVM topic), these form the New Zealand pet-food regulatory framework.\n\n## Honest gaps\n\n- The full section-by-section processing/risk-management-programme obligations are present in the landed 483 KB text but not exhaustively quoted; only the definitional框架 is reproduced verbatim.\n- MPI's *Petfood Processing Operational Code* (the processing/registration layer) could not be cleanly landed (mpi.govt.nz sub-pages returned an Imperva/Incapsula WAF block even via relay) — that layer is **honest-pending**, not fabricated here.\n","sources":["nz-2026 — Animal Products Act 1999 (retrieved 2026-08-18)"],"source":{"authority":"nz-2026","title":"Animal Products Act 1999","url":"https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0093/latest/DLM33502.html","retrieved":"2026-08-18","ref":"","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"Animal Products Act 1999 (NZ), full consolidated text","verification_file":"Animal Products Act 1999, New Zealand Parliament (legislation.govt.nz). First-hand full text obtained 2026-08-18 via headless chromium on the Tokyo relay (483 KB normalized body). English original. This Act defines 'animal material' and 'animal product' and is the primary statute under which the processing of animal-derived pet-food ingredients (e.g. meat meal, animal fat) is regulated in New Zealand."},"source_document":"Animal Products Act 1999 (NZ), full consolidated text","source_file":"Animal Products Act 1999, New Zealand Parliament (legislation.govt.nz). First-hand full text obtained 2026-08-18 via headless chromium on the Tokyo relay (483 KB normalized body). English original. This Act defines 'animal material' and 'animal product' and is the primary statute under which the processing of animal-derived pet-food ingredients (e.g. meat meal, animal fat) is regulated in New Zealand.","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":508,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}