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Bill: Consumer Information Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Georgeonian Centrist Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: November 2181
Description[?]:
| This act seeks to provide information on foodstuffs for consumers, allowing them to make an informed choice about what to eat and what to avoid. It does not limit the freedom of producers to select ingredients and production proceses, but simply ensures that they will be open and honest. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Article 2
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 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 | 12:20:57, February 03, 2006 CET | From |  Georgeonian Centrist Party | To | Debating the Consumer Information Act |
| Message | Apologies for not leaving this at the debating stage for longer, I didn't realise that was the convention. As I understand it now though, this Bill will return to the debate stage after the elections, so it doesn't matter too much. |
| Date | 14:36:30, February 03, 2006 CET | From |  Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Consumer Information Act |
| Message | Not a problem. |
| Date | 01:02:18, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Friedrich Hayek Party | To | Debating the Consumer Information Act |
| Message | Consumers would be pissed off if this information was not listed, thus we do not need to require it as companies will most likely do it anyway |
| Date | 01:50:54, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Georgeonian Centrist Party | To | Debating the Consumer Information Act |
| Message | How many consumers would really boycott a product because this information was not available? I think in practice very few. Therefore we need to make this information available so that consumers are able to make a fair and rational choice as to what to buy. |
| Date | 10:56:44, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Georgeonian Centrist Party | To | Debating the Consumer Information Act |
| Message | It looks like the results of a vote on this bill could be quite close. I urge everyone to support it for the health and wellbeing of our citizens! I will resubmit it for vote shortly. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 41 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 177 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 81 |
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