Bill
Food Standards Amendment (Fish Labelling) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2015-08-12.
- Sponsor
- Nick Xenophon
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-03-26
- second reading — 2015-03-26
- second reading — 2015-05-14
- second reading — 2015-08-12
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-03-26.
The bill would require fish sold for immediate eating to carry country-of-origin labels.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand would have 12 months to write a new standard applying only in Australia that sets these labelling rules.
Restaurants and pubs selling fish dishes would need to state on their menus whether the fish is Australian or from another country.
- Removes the exemption from country-of-origin labelling for cooked or pre-prepared fish sold by food services.
- Gives Food Standards Australia New Zealand 12 months to develop a new standard for fish sold for immediate consumption.
- Extends existing country-of-origin labelling requirements for fish to meals served in restaurants and pubs.
Food services such as restaurants and pubs that sell fish dishes, and the Australian seafood industry.
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