Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

recent research published in The Lancet (vol. 370, 3 November 2007) that highlights possible negative behavioural impacts on children associated with the consumption of the following food colourings: Tartrazine (lemon yellow) (l02), Quinoline yellow (104), Sunset yellow (110), Carmoisine (red) (122), Ponceau 4R (red) (124) and Allura red AC (129),

(ii)

that in April 2008, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency called for a ban on the use of these food colourings and the voluntary removal of these colourings by food manufacturers,

(iii)

that in July 2008, the European Parliament passed legislation mandating the labelling of any food products containing these colourings, and

(iv)

that these food colourings are currently approved for use in Australia by Food Standards Australia New Zealand; and

(b)

calls on the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing (Senator McLucas) to place the issue of banning these food colourings on the agenda of the Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council scheduled for 24 October 2008.