Adam Island
02-12-2004, 02:31
Potentially Dangerous Food Act
Category: Social Justice
Strength: Mild
Proposed By: Adam Island
Description:
The United Nations,
Recalling its resolution Epidemic Prevention Protocol, adopted Oct. 13, 2004, which affirmed UN member states’ rights to ban or quarantine food and medicinal products as necessary to reduce the spread of epidemics;
Observing that large quantities of food cross international borders every day;
Aware that occasionally food will be found to be contaminated with disease or pose a serious health risk, often prompting a quarantine or recall;
Concerned that there is no international body responsible for notifying nations and citizens of food quarantines or recalls;
Convinced that nations need this information to prevent the spread of disease and death;
1. Establishes a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), to help protect international food supplies, provide technical assistance to member nations related to the production and testing of safe food supplies, and to compile and maintain a list of dangerous foods and domestic quarantines or recalls;
2. Urges nations to notify the UN FAO of potentially dangerous food, and to provide all necessary information to prevent diseases spreading from the potentially dangerous food, as qualified by any of the following:
a) A government, corporation, organization, group or individual recalls the
food or parts of the food.
b ) Criminal or civil action regarding the safety of the food is filed.
c) The food is shown to be unfit for consumption.
d) The food was produced, processed and/or transported using the same
method or in the same area as a potentially dangerous food.
3. Urges nations to take the greatest possible care in food production, processing and transport;
4. Authorizes the UN FAO to hire and work with experts in the fields of agriculture, food production and distribution, and public health; and
5. Urges the nations of the UN to provide long-term assistance to the UN FAO on an “as-needed” basis.
Category: Social Justice
Strength: Mild
Proposed By: Adam Island
Description:
The United Nations,
Recalling its resolution Epidemic Prevention Protocol, adopted Oct. 13, 2004, which affirmed UN member states’ rights to ban or quarantine food and medicinal products as necessary to reduce the spread of epidemics;
Observing that large quantities of food cross international borders every day;
Aware that occasionally food will be found to be contaminated with disease or pose a serious health risk, often prompting a quarantine or recall;
Concerned that there is no international body responsible for notifying nations and citizens of food quarantines or recalls;
Convinced that nations need this information to prevent the spread of disease and death;
1. Establishes a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), to help protect international food supplies, provide technical assistance to member nations related to the production and testing of safe food supplies, and to compile and maintain a list of dangerous foods and domestic quarantines or recalls;
2. Urges nations to notify the UN FAO of potentially dangerous food, and to provide all necessary information to prevent diseases spreading from the potentially dangerous food, as qualified by any of the following:
a) A government, corporation, organization, group or individual recalls the
food or parts of the food.
b ) Criminal or civil action regarding the safety of the food is filed.
c) The food is shown to be unfit for consumption.
d) The food was produced, processed and/or transported using the same
method or in the same area as a potentially dangerous food.
3. Urges nations to take the greatest possible care in food production, processing and transport;
4. Authorizes the UN FAO to hire and work with experts in the fields of agriculture, food production and distribution, and public health; and
5. Urges the nations of the UN to provide long-term assistance to the UN FAO on an “as-needed” basis.