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2010-2011

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

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

(Amendment to be moved by Senator Xenophon and by Senator Siewert on behalf of the Australian Greens in committee of the whole)

(1)     Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (lines 8 to 23), omit subsections 16B(1) and (2), substitute:

             (1)  The Authority must, within 6 months after the commencement of this section, develop and approve labelling standards that prescribe that producers, manufacturers and distributors of food containing palm oil, regardless of the amount of palm oil used in the food or used to produce the food, must list palm oil as an ingredient of the food.

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