Portfolio Responsibilities

Portfolio responsibilities for The Hon Mark Butler MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Health

The Hon Mark Butler assists Minister Roxon by assuming responsibility for matters relating to:

• Therapeutic Goods Administration
• Office of the Gene Technology Regulator
• National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme
• Office of Chemical Safety
• Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
• Food Standards Australia New Zealand
• National Blood Authority
• food policy
• blood and organ donation
• BBVs/STIs (Assisting Minister Roxon)
• health and medical research
• biotechnology
• human cloning and stem cell research
• nanotechnologies
• Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy