Here's some comments on the "final/current" version. I regret not having time to take a closer look-through of this proposal prior to your previous submission, but hopefully these comments will be somewhat helpful.
A mean old man wrote:On Expiration Dates
Other suggestion: For Safe and Effective Products / Safety and Efficacy / something along those lines?
A mean old man wrote:ASSERTING its belief that the people of all nations have a right to live without unnecessary and daily fears of damage to their physical well-being,
This reads clunkily to my ears. Might I suggest something like:
ASSERTING its belief that members of all nations have a right to live free from daily fear of unnecessary and avoidable harm to their physical well-being. ? I did a few wording changes and rearranging. If that's not even close to what you'd meant to say, my apologies. Still, the current version isn't as clear I think it could or should be.
A mean old man wrote:RECOGNIZING that many companies produce goods which significantly degrade or cease to function after a period of time,
Suggestion:
RECOGNIZING that many companies produce goods which significantly degrade after a period of time, which can result in the product having toxic or inter properties.Some medications (which isn't necessarily what is being targeted here) can actually become
harmful after they "expire" and degrade. I think including that sort of detail in the proposal text is helpful and may win you a few more votes for those who can be bothered to read the proposal text.
A mean old man wrote:BELIEVING that the average length of time that certain goods last must be known in order to promote the safety of the consumer,
Perhaps consider changing "last" (with regards to time) to "can be expected to be safe and effective" or something along those lines?
A mean old man wrote:NOTING that this holds true for items such as medical supplies/equipment and food,
Perhaps:
SPECIFYING that such details are important for a wide variety of items, including medical supplies, medical equipment, and food. (And medications? Food and Drug Standards may cover some of that - but it would also cover food, which you're specifically mentioning here.)
A mean old man wrote:DEFINES, solely for the purposes of this resolution, a "necessity" as any item which is intended for human consumption and/or an item that, if it was not in proper condition or if it was not functioning, would lead to the deprivation of a
human of any sort of bodily activity that is required for the extension of the lifetime of said
human,
I think you could completely excise the first mention of HUMAN, if not both from this clause.
DEFINES, solely for the purposes of this resolution, a "necessity" as any item which is intended for human consumption and/or an item that, if it was not in proper condition or if it was not functioning, would lead to the deprivation of any sort of bodily activity that is required for the extension of one's lifetime,
I remain unconvinced that including dog food or catnip or ... whatever under the scope of this proposal would be damaging and/or harmful. Certainly, I'm open to argument if I'm missing some important point.
A mean old man wrote:CHARGES any distributor of any necessity to attain an accurate and average prediction of how long each and every necessity that they distribute will last until it degrades to a level of quality at which it will directly "lead to the deprivation of a
human of any sort of bodily activity that is required for the extension of the lifetime of said
human,"
Like above, I believe that any/all mention of HUMAN can be excised from this clause.
A mean old man wrote:MANDATES that the distributors of a necessity provide, in a readily comprehensible fashion, all of the information that they have been charged to acquire by the previous clause to any who wish to view it,
FURTHER MANDATES that any recipient(s) of a necessity be provided with the information on how long the exact necessity that they are receiving lasts by the
distributer of said necessity.
Spelling error!
Also, I'd appreciate a clause along the lines of the following:
ALLOWS individual member nations to require the manufacturer of a necessity to detail all required information and to supply that information to the distributor, in accordance with all relevant international law.Obviously, there's a number of ways to "write" that, but I would personally prefer to task the CREATOR of necessities (i.e. the manufacturer) with determining how long their product is good for rather than requiring such information to be determined by the distributor.
Additionally, it appears as if this proposal would apply to fresh fruit and vegetables, which almost seems like overkill. Maybe I'm just too much of a cook, but I can usually tell when "fresh" foods are going bad or have gone bad, so I don't know that such information is necessary. Again, I just wanted to clarify that this was something you meant to include and/or see if you have any brainstorms on the subject that I've missed.
Cheers,
Nikolas Eberhart
Ambassador from the Doctoral Monkey Feet of Mousebumples
WA Delegate for Monkey Island