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This enactment amends the Department of Health Act. Under this
provision, the Minister of Health is responsible for
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(a) conducting research in order to
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(i) establish whether the consumption of genetically modified
foods by a human being or an animal produces, in the short term
and in the long term, dangerous or harmful effects on their health,
and
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(ii) establish whether the cultivation of plants from genetically
modified seeds produces, in the short term and in the long term,
dangerous or harmful effects on the environment, insects and
other plants;
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(b) making regulations on the labelling of genetically modified
foods in order to allow consumers to easily identify that characteris
tic of the food;
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(c) creating a committee responsible for
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(i) examining whether the research conducted for the purpose of
creating genetically modified food and the consumption by a
human being of such foods causes ethic problems or goes against
certain religious practices and, if so, to make such recommenda
tions as the committee deems useful in the circumstances, and
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(ii) encouraging all groups, including the academic community,
to engage a debate on the matters referred to in sub-paragraph (i),
and
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(d) setting up information programs for the general public to make
people aware
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(i) of the short term and long term effects of the consumption of
genetically modified foods on the health of human beings and
animals; and
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(ii) of the short term and long term effects of the cultivation of
plants from genetically modified seeds on the environment,
insects and other plants.
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