[GA, passed] - Repeal: “Food And Drug Standards”

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Repeal: “Food And Drug Standards”
Category: Repeal | GA #64
Proposed by: Simone Republic, Co-authored by: 9003 | Onsite Topic
Replacement: < Pre-Packaged Food Labelling >​


The World Assembly,

Believing that food safety is important,

Concerned that GA 64 "Food and Drug Standards" is poorly written enough that it manages to be both too weak and too overbearing to accomplish this goal,

Noting that the target handles compliance by charging the WA Food and Drug Regulatory Agency (WAFDRA) with "gradually" implementing reforms and "eventually" establishing regulatory agencies in members that lack them, without defining an actual timeframe for compliance, thereby opening the door to all sorts of procedural delays and bureaucratic shenanigans,

Annoyed at the target's creation of a quality grading system without actually specifying what goes into determining a product's level of "relative" quality beyond requiring the similarly vague "creation of international standards", failing to account for such factors as differences in sapient species, taste, or acceptable levels of chemicals in food;

Distraught at the target's requirement of penalties for "any businesses that attempt to evade safety standards upon their products" without limiting the scope of "safety standards," thereby requiring extensive WA involvement in the enforcement of everything from local food safety ordinances to a gas station convenience store chain ordering its locations to improve their sausage quality,

Horrified by delegating much of the enforcement to "extensive WA involvement," as the target leaves these penalties "at the discretion of the WAFDRA,"

Confused at what the target means by "appropriate legal consequences" for quality control facilities that fail in their duties, as well as what the target means by requiring the creation "an overall international standard" for national inspection facilities, and what exactly goes into this standard,

Fearful of the ramifications of the target empowering WAFDRA to "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," given that shutting down a facility inspecting lots of low-quality products and acting accordingly would mean shutting down an inspection facility for doing its job,

Believing that shutting down an inspection facility that actually fails at its job still wouldn't be an appropriate response if reforming its operations is an option, and

Noting the passing since this resolution of other related resolutions focusing on drugs, including GAR 582 (Access to Effective Medications) and GAR 659 (Medical Standards), and on food (GAR 713), and looking forward to several potential replacements to address these flaws that are in discussions in this esteemed organ,

Hereby repeals GA 64 "Food and Drug Standards."
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Overview
This resolution repeals GAR 64, "Food and Drug Standards", claiming that it is poorly written enough that it manages to be both too weak and too overbearing to accomplish this goal. Various complaints are made about a lack of enforcement mechanisms, an ill-defined "quality grading system", and a very specific focus on inspection of facilities.

Recommendation
Since the passing of this resolution there had been several new resolutions on drugs including GAR 582, 659, as well as on food standards (713), and several new resolution proposal are pending on various regulatory matters concerning food and drug standards in far more granular detail. We believe this poorly drafted resolution will not be missed.

For the above reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends a vote For the at-vote GA resolution, Repeal Food & Drug Standards.
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Present

Concerns remain regarding the replacement even with only a cursory assessment—seems to entirely misunderstand and mislabel several vague headings (see "additives", "ingredients", "nutrient", "technology", and "warning"), and apparently subscribes to pseudoscientific, fearmongering nonsense about safe technologies.
 
Present

Concerns remain regarding the replacement even with only a cursory assessment—seems to entirely misunderstand and mislabel several vague headings (see "additives", "ingredients", "nutrient", "technology", and "warning"), and apparently subscribes to pseudoscientific, fearmongering nonsense about safe technologies.

That resolution is far from queue. Still at least a month to fix. Any comments on the replacement would be appreciated.
 
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For as author. There is also another replacement about manufacturing practices for food facilities (which is actually a more direct replacement for this resolution) which I need to clean up and will post in the next few days.
 
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That resolution is far from queue. Still at least a month to fix. Any comments on the replacement would be appreciated.

You can have your repeal; it's a vote Present, not Against.

For as author. There is also another replacement about manufacturing practices for food facilities (which is actually a more direct replacement for this resolution) which I need to clean up and will post in the next few days.

In that case, why was that not the linked "replacement"/why was that not at least drafted forumside before the apparently-irrelevant repeal?
 
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I concur with the repeal that it is unsatisfying to offset all legislative work to a committee. The problem with this is that it disincentivises meaningful effort to address policy, in favour of the convenient but dull response of letting Gnomes handle all relevant matters. Furthermore, the repeal correctly identifies numerous particular problems with the way in which the committee operates. On this basis, I am in favour of this repeal.
 
For as author. There is also another replacement about manufacturing practices for food facilities (which is actually a more direct replacement for this resolution) which I need to clean up and will post in the next few days.

You can have your repeal; it's a vote Present, not Against.



In that case, why was that not the linked "replacement"/why was that not at least drafted forumside before the apparently-irrelevant repeal?

Largely because the original GA#64 included a lot of different areas, the replacements are in separate resolutions as they are much more detailed.
 
Largely because the original GA#64 included a lot of different areas, the replacements are in separate resolutions as they are much more detailed.

As a point of order, given I don't really expect or need a response: I didn't ask why they're separate resolutions.
 
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