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

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
B Quatacker
PO Box 514
NEW FARM QLD 4005
Total Signatures - 923
Sponsoring Member: Hon Dean Wells MP
Posting Date: 25/2/2003
Tabled Date: 20/8/2003
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 petitions 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.