Reminder to Farmers
The Biosecurity (Ruminant Protein) Regulations 1999 forbid the feeding of ruminant protein to ruminant animals. Although New Zealand is free of both bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie, our credibility as a source of safe food and our access to overseas markets depends on all food producers abiding by legal requirements such as this ban.
You are asked to remember that this regulation requires that you not:
- provide or allow feeds containing meat and bone meal, blood meal, bone meal or other ruminant proteins to be fed to any ruminant animal (including sheep, beef and dairy cattle, deer or goats); and
- allow ruminant proteins such as "blood and bone" or slaughter effluent applied as fertiliser to be consumed by ruminant animals during subsequent grazing.
| If you would like further details, contact Ashley Edge, MAF
Biosecurity, Phone Wellington 04 474 4213 |
Contact for Enquiries
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington
Tel: 0800 00 83 33
Fax: +64 4 894 0720
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