New Zealand Animal Products Act 1999 — animal-material / processed-animal-product framework
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.
Key definitions (verbatim from the Act)
- Animal material: "animal material means any live or dead animal, or any tissue or other material taken or derived from an animal"
- 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…"
Relevance to pet food
Pet 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.
Honest gaps
- 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.
- 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.