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Bill: A More Comprehensive Food Safety Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvik-Nazz Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2102
Description[?]:
| The government should ensure, to a reasonable yet not intrusive degree, that its citizens are receiving safe food products from trusted vendors. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: There are no food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: The government recommends food safety standards, but they are not enforced upon businesses.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: The sale of food is unregulated.
Current: Food may be sold by licensed vendors only.
Proposed: Food may be sold by licensed vendors only.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:27:37, August 25, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the A More Comprehensive Food Safety Act |
| Message | We agree to 1, but not to 2. Farmers, street markets, etc. are perfectly safe as long as they abide by certain basic regulations. Not everyone needs to buy their food from a supermarket if they don't want to. Handling food isn't some uberspecialized craft like being a neurosurgeon, and thus it's fine to allow our people to do it. |
| Date | 17:18:05, August 25, 2005 CET | From | Dorvik-Nazz Party | To | Debating the A More Comprehensive Food Safety Act |
| Message | A "licensed vendor" does not imply that only supermarkets are involved. We agree that -- more than likely -- farmers markets and the like are usually safe, however subjecting these vendors to basic regulations under a license would ensure product safety. Thus, smaller markets are able to compete with larger ones -- even if both fall under the same safety regulations. |
| Date | 21:29:07, August 26, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the A More Comprehensive Food Safety Act |
| Message | The cost of getting the license essentially adds a large fixed cost to food vendors, which hits small vendors a lot harder than large vendors. |
| Date | 18:02:40, August 28, 2005 CET | From |  Dorvik Social Democrats | To | Debating the A More Comprehensive Food Safety Act |
| Message | We agree with the Maroon party's concern but we will vote yes for article 1. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 110 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 80 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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