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September 1, 2026

New Simply Safe and Suitable (SSS) Template Food Control Plan published - now permits making pre-cooked chilled and frozen meals

New Zealand Food Safety has issued the updated Food Notice: Food Service and Food Retail Business Food Control Plan templates issued under section 39 and made changes to the Simply Safe and Suitable Food Control Plan template. 

Food Notice: Food Service and Food Retail Business Food Control Plan templates issued under section 39. 2026 [PDF, 293 KB]

Simply Safe and Suitable Food Control Plan [PDF, 2 MB]

The changes enable the manufacture of pre-cooked, chilled (with a shelf life of no more than 5 days) and frozen meals direct to consumer and include updates to the following cards:

Thoroughly cooking food [PDF, 254 KB]

Cooling and freezing your food [PDF, 390 KB]

Transporting food [PDF, 255 KB]

Packaging and labelling your food [PDF, 232 KB]

Operators who wish to add the pre-cooked chilled or frozen meals to their scope can replace the individual cards or re-print the complete SSS plan which has been updated to v39-00006. Operators who do not want to add those activities to their scope do not need to update their template.

Steps to a Simply Safe and Suitable template food control plan

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