The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has released five papers that are part of a review of the government’s role in the domestic food sector. The fifth paper, Principles and Possible Methods for a Cost Recovery Framework (the Cost Recovery Paper), states that its purpose is to “propose principles and possible methods for a cost recovery framework for domestic food safety that will determine the funding of functions undertaken by the regulator or on its behalf and who will fund those functions” (p 5).