Our recommendations

Monitoring importers of specified high-risk foods.

We recommend that the Ministry for Primary Industries:

  1. take a more proactive approach to identify non-compliance with requirements for importing specified high-risk foods by regularly collating and evaluating information about importers and imported food;
  2. further improve its understanding of:
    • the information that importers need to improve their compliance with requirements for importing specified high-risk foods; and
    • the most effective way of informing importers; and
  3. strengthen the system for controlling the import of specified high-risk foods by ensuring that it has the information it needs to:
    • regularly review the requirements for importing specified high-risk foods so that they are appropriate, clear, and working as intended; and
    • detect food safety risks earlier, better understand them, and respond more effectively.