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Bill: Food Safety Act 3016
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Independence 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: January 3017
Description[?]:
| To improve the health of the nation through increasing the public's understanding of what their eating. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: Companies are required to label food and beverage products somewhere on the package.
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 and those with specific labelling requirements must be listed.
Current: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Proposed: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:21:18, October 18, 2010 CET | From |  ƒortenohƒiv (ACN) | To | Debating the Food Safety Act 3016 |
| Message | What good does it help for the consumer to know all of this? How many people actually read the labels? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 146 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 124 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger |