The FSSA is hereby open to voting by all members of the General Assembly.
Voting shall be concluded by 23:59 on May 23.
Voting shall be concluded by 23:59 on May 23.
Food Standards and Safety Act
The main objective of this bill is to establish and maintain a fixed quality above which all food products put up for sale must stand. It will detail exactly what body will judge whether a foodstuff is considered unsatisfactory, the powers and funds that body will possess in tracing and rectifying that problem, and the punishments that can be levied against the producer(s) of that unsatisfactory food.
1. A new body shall be created known as the Food Standards Agency (FSA), which;
(a) will have a Director appointed directly by the MESA, who;
(i) will be responsible and will be held accountable by the MESA for all activities engaged by the FSA; and
(ii) will be awarded a salary to-be-decided by the MESA; and
(iii) will have full powers to decide the minimum standards of a certain foodstuff; and
(iv) may be removed at any time, by the MESA, from the position.
(b) will have an annual budget of 400 million ducats per annum, which must be used;
(i) to maintain scientific facilities and offices; and
(ii) to purchase up-to-date research equipment; and
(iii) to pay the wages of all necessary scientists and research assistants; and
(iv) to pursue those who break FSA standards through the courts; and
(v) to pay the wages of a team of FSA inspectors to investigate all alleged breaking of the law.
(c) will have the power to;
(i) set a minimum standard against which all foodstuffs must rate to be available for purchase; and
(ii) declare a foodstuff or brand to be unsuitable for human consumption-; and
- (a) being illegal to sell to any person
(iii) close a restaurant, cafe, brewery, distillery, or other food production or food preparation facility; and
(iv) seize any quantity of a food-stuff, given due suspicion.
2. If a person is found to be working contrary to the standards of the FSA, criminal charges may be brought against that person or that organisation;
(a) if that person or organisation is knowingly in possession of substandard food-stuffs and-; or
(i) intends to sell that food-stuff; or
(ii) intends to feed that food-stuff to another person; or
(iii) intends to dump that food-stuff elsewhere.
(b) if that person or organisation is unknowingly in possession of substandard food-stuffs and-; or
(i) has insufficiently hygienic food-preparation areas.
(c) if that person or organisation refuses to hand over any food-stuff that the FSA wishes to seize; or
(d) if that person or organisation continues to operate a food-preparation or production facility that the FSA has closed.
3. All food-stuffs imported into the country must;
(a) be declared initially to customs officials at the port of entry, who-; or
(i) have the right to search, withold, perform tests on, and send that food-stuff to a FSA laboratory.
(b) be declared to a FSA office once within the country; and
(c) conform to the standards laid out by the FSA in regards to that particular food-stuff.