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Bill: Consumer Product Safety Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya
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 2494
Description[?]:
Making sure our products are safe and up to standards is not only important in the interests of our people, but also in the interest of trade. Our trading reputation will be broken if foreign nations find that our consumer product exports are tainted or not up to respectable standards. Even those who seek profit over safety should understand that without safety in our consumer products, there shall be no profit. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: Companies are encouraged by the government to label food and beverage products.
Current: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Proposed: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Scope of food ingredient labeling (if present).
Old value:: Only the major ingredients need to be listed.
Current: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Proposed: Only the major ingredients and those with specific labelling requirements must be listed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 17:53:34, December 01, 2007 CET | From | Kommunisticheskaya Partiya | To | Debating the Consumer Product Safety Act |
Message | And of course the Royalists have voted no to anything that involved the safety of our people. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 335 | ||||||
no |
Total Seats: 157 | ||||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 63 |
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