Food, alcohol and health issues

You can let us know:

• if you believe a food business has made you ill
• if you believe a food business is breaking the rules
• if you already hold a food licence and have invoicing or certificate queries.

Report a food licence issue

Any person or business that sells food needs to be registered under the Food Act 2014. To register a new business or for more information on starting a new business please see this information:

Food premises

From time to time businesses operate in the Whangārei District without registration or outside of the rules. This could include:

• bars operating without a licence or outside of their hours
• hairdressers operating from home without a registration
• funeral directors operating without a registration
• camping grounds operating without registration
• offensive trades operating without registration
• businesses selling on roadside without registration or a stall licence. 

If you believe a business is unregistered or operating outside of the rules please let us know so we can send an officer to investigate.

Report a health or alcohol licence breach

Please let us know if you believe a food, beauty therapy, tattooing or piercing business is dirty or has made you ill, and we will investigate. 

We will also investigate unsanitary properties such as:

• smelly compost heap that attracts flies and rats to an area
• rubbish which is not put out for collection
• shellfish, including kina, left on the ground to rot rather than being buried.

Report an unsanitary health issue