MP calls for 'recycled water' food labels ...

Anything wrong with "source of origin" labels?

Excerpt from the Courier Mail:

MP calls for 'recycled water' food labels

7 February 2007

A senior Queensland MP has called for all food and drink products made with recycled water to be labelled as such.
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Former Queensland opposition leader Lawrence Springborg said families had a right to know what they were eating and drinking and new labels should be introduced.

"It is a matter for individuals, whether they are happy to have treated effluent placed in their water supply and I respect that", Mr Springborg said.

"For the sake of choice, Queenslanders should be told whether or not the foods they are consuming contain treated sewage effluent."

Mr Springborg said the situation was similar to that of the introduction of genetically modified organisms into food.

He said authorities cleared GMOs as being perfectly safe to eat but still enforced labelling laws to give consumers a right to know and choose whether to eat them.

See - Time to label recycled water.

Also picked up by the Sydney Morning Herald - Recycled water labelling.

Also read the comments in State parliament yesterday - Hansard - 6 February 2007 - page 73-75.