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Bill: Food Standards Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty and Prosperity 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: September 2194
Description[?]:
| Companies will not put anything dangerous in their products. If they do, they'll lose consumers and go bankrupt. It's in their interest to police themselves. (in otherwords, shameless pandering because my Laissez-faire stance slipped to Moderate.) =) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Current: Companies are required to label food and beverage products somewhere on the package.
Proposed: There are no laws concerning food and beverage labeling.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: There are no food standards provisions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:50:41, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Socio-Democratic Union | To | Debating the Food Standards Reform Act |
| Message | I can't let that pass, LPP ;o) |
| Date | 19:57:56, March 03, 2006 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Food Standards Reform Act |
| Message | I didn't expect you to =P |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 291 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 387 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 72 |
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