No nuclear irradiation, no food irradiation

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
Anna Barnes
PO Box 514
NEW FARM QLD 4005
Total Signatures - 429
Sponsoring Member: Mr Peter Wellington MP
Posting Date: 17/10/2002
Closing Date: 1/12/2002
Tabled Date: 3/12/2002
Responded By: Responded Minister on 9/1/2003
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Queensland Residents draw to the attention of the House their opposition to food irradiation and the building of the nuclear irradiation facility proposed for Narangba Industrial Estate (Caboolture Shire), as well as the Electron Beam facility proposed for North Queensland. Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to: • prohibit the establishment of nuclear irradiation facilities at any location in Queensland • oppose the use of X-ray or Electron Beam facilities for the irradiation of foodstuffs 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 and Food Standards Australia New Zealand to amend Standards A-17 and 1.5.3 in the Food Standards Code to ban food irradiation in Australia and New Zealand.