New Zealand ACVM Act 1997 — agricultural compounds & veterinary medicines framework
Primary source (first-hand, landed): *Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997*, New Zealand Parliament. This is the primary statute under which veterinary medicines and agricultural compounds — including pet-food additives and medicated feeds — are registered and controlled in New Zealand. The English text below is the verbatim C1-checked source.
Key facts (verbatim from the Act)
- Long title / purpose: "The purpose of this Act is to— (a) prevent or manage risks associated with the use of agricultural compounds, being— (ia) risks to public health; and (i) risks to trade in primary produce; and (ii) risks to animal welfare; and (iii) risks to agricultural security."
- Definition — agricultural compound: "agricultural compound means— (a) any substance, mixture of substances, or biological compound, used or intended for use in the direct management of plants and animals, or to be applied to the land, place, or water on or in which the plants and animals are managed, for the purposes of— (i) managing or eradicating pests, including …"
- Definition — veterinary medicine: "veterinary medicine means any substance, mixture of substances, or biological compound used or intended for use in the direct management of an animal …"
Relevance to pet food
In New Zealand, substances added to pet food that are "agricultural compounds" (e.g. certain feed additives, medicated-feed actives) fall under the ACVM regime administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), not under a dedicated pet-food statute. Pet-food registration/processing is governed separately (see the Animal Products Act 1999 and MPI's Petfood Processing Operational Code, where first-hand access was blocked by WAF — see notes). The ACVM Act is the controlling authority for the additive / medicated-feed layer of the pet-food supply chain.
Honest gaps
- The full section-by-section approval/registration mechanics (sections specifying the ACVM Register, application, and assessment timeframes) are present in the landed 299 KB text but not exhaustively quoted here; only the definitional and purpose框架 are reproduced verbatim.
- 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.