date:Dec 19, 2012
New Zealand has signed a Food Safety Systems Recognition Arrangement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under which the countries will recognise each other's food safety system as being equivalent to their own.
The arrangement was signed at a meeting in Washington DC by teams from the FDA and New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
New Zealand is the first country to sign such an arrangement with the US.
Both countries plan to use this arrangement to lower the regula