Is New Zealand moving away from a bi-national food regulatory framework with Australia?

While Australia and New Zealand share a bi-national regulatory framework for foods ‘on paper’, there are several important carve-outs and deviations where New Zealand has elected to implement its own specific standards. Now, with the introduction of separate standards for infant formula products in Australia and New Zealand, we again ask: Do we still have a bi-national food framework? In this article, we examine the history of joint food regulation between Australia and New Zealand, and some of the important current carve-outs from the bi-national approach, and what this means for businesses selling our sourcing foods in Australia and New Zealand.