Food and Drug Standards
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice
Strength: ???
Proposed By: Greenlandic People
OBSERVING the poor or irregular quality control in the food and drug industries of many nations
BELIEVING that such poor quality assurance in business endangers the consumer’s health and living standard
SEEKING to establish a firm system of quality control and standards in these industries and eliminate unsanitary and unethical food production
Hereby:
REQUIRES member-states to regularly inspect their quality control facilities in order to ensure that they are performing to international standards
DEMANDS that all food and drug products produced in member states must undergo safety and quality screening before being released to the consumer market
CREATES the World Assembly Food and Drug Regulatory Agency (WAFDRA)
CHARGES the WAFDRA with the responsibility to ensure that the food and drug regulatory agencies of member-states are performing satisfactorily; also to gradually implement reforms to the quality regulation authorities of member-states
MANDATES that such reforms shall include:
(A)The creation of a quality grade system by which all food and drug products shall receive a grade marking their relative level of quality and safety
(B)The establishment of forfeits for any businesses that attempt to evade safety standards upon their products; the nature and degree of such forfeits being left at the discretion of the WAFDRA and the establishment of appropriate legal consequences should any quality control facilities be found to be failing in their duty to assure the quality of the products they are charged with inspecting
(C)The creation of a team of WAFDRA inspectors who shall visit product inspection facilities on an annual basis or earlier upon the request of the committee in order to determine if they are still performing adequately to the standards of the WAFDRA
(D)The creation of an overall international standard to which all inspection facilities in member-states shall be measured against; also the creation of international standards by which to measure the safety of food and drug products
ASSERTS that in nations where there is no system of quality control the WAFDRA shall work with the national government to eventually establish such agencies
EMPOWERS the WAFDRA order the closure of any food and drug regulatory facilities that are found to repeatedly fail to succeed in ensuring the quality of the products being inspected; the closure shall be carried out by national law-enforcement
ORDERS that food and drug products being sold must bear upon them an official WAFDRA label which clearly displays the quality grade that the product has been given by national quality-inspection facilities
NOTES that producers and vendors of de minimis quantities of food and drugs shall be exempt from the above clauses so long as they post visible notice at their place of sales that they are not operating under international standards
Well, the drafting of my fraud bill gave me an idea and I've run with it. Hopefully this proposal can strike a balance between leaving quality control in the hands of national governments, whilst still ensuring that national quality control can be brought to a higher level of accountability and excellence.
Thoughts?