New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsThe object of this Act is to regulate the sale of soil improving agents and trace element products so as:
(a) to protect human health by ensuring that unsafe levels of heavy metals and other contaminants that may occur in soil improving agents or trace element products do not make their way into the human food chain, and
(b) to facilitate international trade by ensuring that agricultural products destined for export markets comply with requirements of international trading partners in relation to the presence of heavy metals and other contaminants, and
(c) to protect the environment by better informing purchasers of the composition of soil improving agents and trace element products and by restricting the proportion of certain substances that soil improving agents and trace element products may contain.