GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD LABELLING —
REPORT
217. Hon LYNN MacLAREN to the minister representing the
Minister for Agriculture and Food:
With regard to the report of the interdepartmental committee
on GM food labelling —
(1) Who commissioned the report?
(2) Who funded the report?
(3) Have the
submissions and answers referred to in question 4 of my question on notice
2528, answered on l0 August 2010, been tabled; and, if not, why not?
(4) Why will
the findings of the report, which are clearly in the public interest, not be
tabled in Parliament, in accordance with the minister's earlier
commitment to table it?
Hon
ROBYN McSWEENEY replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of this
question.
(1) The Minister for Agriculture and Food.
(2) The Department of Agriculture
and Food.
(3) I table
the report, which contains a summary of the submissions received. The full
submissions are not contained in the final report as no clearance was sought
for public release from respondents.
(4) Not applicable.
[See paper 4485.]