Senate debates

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Bills

Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling — Palm Oil) Bill 2010; In Committee

10:45 am

Photo of Jan McLucasJan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

I may come back to that issue because I think this is something that we do need very clear clarification about. I will go to the question then of manufactured goods. What does it cover? It seems clear in one part that we are talking about food and then in another part of the material that I have seen it seems to be able to include anything that has palm oil in it, which would then go to soaps, detergents, cosmetics, biodiesel et cetera. I just need to be very clear what we are talking about in terms of the labelling provisions.

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