Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I seek leave for a very short finishing sentence.

Leave granted.

Thank you. The combinations and concentrations of colours used in the Southampton study are not present in food products available to the public in Australia and New Zealand. Notwithstanding the overwhelming view that the Southampton study is not sufficient cause to instigate any further tightening of the permissions in the Food Standards Code, FSANZ is in the process of estimating the amounts of a range of colours that are consumed by Australian children based on the analytical concentrations found in a recent food study, and that report will be able to be provided later this year.

Question put:

That the motion (Senator Siewert’s) be agreed to.