102-02 Food irradiation and the proposed building of a nuclear irradiation facility at Narangba

Eligibility - Residents of the State of Queensland
Principal Petitioner:
B Quatacker
PO Box 514
NEW FARM QLD 4005
Total Signatures - 1,716
Sponsoring Member: Hon Dean Wells MP
Posting Date: 12/09/2002
Tabled Date: 30/10/2002
Referred to: Referred Minister on 13/11/2002
Responded By: Hon Wendy Edmond MP on 09/01/2003
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland The petition of residents of the State of Queensland draws to the attention of the House their opposition to food irradiation and the building of the nuclear irradiation facility proposed for Narangba, in Caboolture Shire, as well as the Electron beam facility proposed for North Queensland.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to: prohibit the establishment of a nuclear irradiation facility or X-Ray or Electron beam facility at any location in Queensland; ban the import, export and sale of irradiated food in Queensland; call on the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council (ANZFSC) and the Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) to amend Standards A-17 and 1.5.3 – Irradiation of Foods in the Food Standards Code to ban food irradiation outright in Australia and New Zealand.