Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

An example of this would be an improvement in technology that could detect minuscule levels of a substance which, although not harmful, is not permitted under the food standards code. In a situation where—for example, on apples—new technology enables the detection of even the tiniest trace of an element that is not permitted, trade could be interfered with and an urgency provision would overcome that problem.

Question negatived.