[At Vote] [ga] Repeal: “Food And Drug Standards”

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General Assembly Resolution

Repeal "Food And Drug Standards”

A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.

Category: Repeal

Resolution: GA#64

Proposed by: Simone Republic

General Assembly Resolution #64 “Food and Drug Standards” (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.



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."



Co-author: 9003



This is the discussion thread. To cast your vote, go HERE

[Zebastani]

I have voted For this resolution. I have read the original and can clearly see the points that this resolution is trying to make.
For example, I am also confused at what it meant by "Appropriate legal consequences", it doesn't really give much detail about what the punishment should be.
Overall, not a bad repeal resolution

[Pantso]

The point of creating a regulatory agency like the World Assembly Food and Drug Regulatory Agency, which the target resolution establishes, is to deal with many of the details that are the subject of these criticisms. Resolutions don't need to, and should not, address literally all potential permutations of an issue. Attempting to do so would make it nearly impossible to pass resolutions in the first place.

Since almost the entirety of this resolution focuses on the details the WAFDRA was created to handle, rather than actual issues with the target resolution, Pantso recommends Against.

[Jabberwocky]

What he said ^^