NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 206

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Animals Protection Act 1960

Approval of Code of Ethical Conduct, Notice No. 4472 (100/A1/07)

Pursuant to section 19A of the Animals Protection Act 1960 and on the advice of the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee I hereby approve the code of ethical conduct submitted to me from the Shell Chemicals New Zealand Limited.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of November 1988.

COLIN MOYLE, Minister of Agriculture.
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New Zealand Grown Fruit and Vegetables Regulations 1975

Standard Grade for the Export of Buttercup Squash (Notice No: 4474; Ag. 12/2/14)

This notice revokes the Standard Grade for the Export of Buttercup Squash Notice 1984 published in the New Zealand Gazette, Thursday, 6 December 1984.

Pursuant to the New Zealand Grown Fruit and Vegetables Regulations 1975*, the Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries hereby gives notice that the Standard Grade for the Export of Buttercup Squash shall be set out in this notice.

Notice

1. Title—(1) This notice may be cited as the Standard Grade for the Export of Buttercup Squash Notice 1988.

(2) This notice shall come into force on the day after the date of its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Interpretation—Unless the context otherwise requires, terms and expressions used in this notice shall have the same meaning as in the New Zealand Grown Fruit and Vegetables Regulations 1975*. Certain of these terms and expressions as applicable to buttercup squash are defined in the First Schedule to this notice.

3. Application of notice—This notice determines the standard grade for the export of buttercup squash from New Zealand.

4. Title and grade—The grade mark assigned to this standard grade shall be Grade 1 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the grade’).

5. Definition of produce—This grade applies to buttercup squash grown from varieties of cucurbita maxima to be supplied fresh to the consumer.

Note: Buttercup squash for industrial processing is excluded from this grade providing the packages are marked accordingly.

6. Provisions concerning quality—The purpose of this standard is to delineate the quality requirements for buttercup squash at the dispatching stage, after preparation and packaging.

The buttercup squash must be:

• free from pests and diseases and meet any quarantine and other legal requirements of the importing country;
• intact, whole;
• sound—free from storage defects or any other defects which impair their general appearance or keeping quality;
• clean—free from soil, and practically free of any other visible foreign matter;
• free from abnormal external moisture;
• free of foreign smell or taste;
• mature;
• trimmed;
• cured;
• of good quality, with similar varietal characteristics including shape and colour and without distortion due to abnormal development;
• capable of withstanding handling, storage and transport, and arriving at the destination in a sound condition;
• free from sunburn and scald.

Skin defects which are not liable to impair the keeping qualities are permitted within the limits specified in the Second Schedule to this notice.

7. Provisions concerning sizing—Sizing is determined by weight at the time of packing. The minimum size for export in bulk packs is 1.2 kg.

Note: Squash in the size range 1.0 to 1.2 kg only is permitted as a separate pack which must be marked accordingly.

8. Provisions concerning tolerances—Any one package shall not contain more than 5 percent of buttercup squash by weight outside the branded size range.

9. Provisions concerning presentation:

(a) Uniformity—

The contents of each package must be uniform; each package must contain only buttercup squash of the same origin, variety, quality, degree of ripeness and size.