Senate Bill No. 1147 Principal Author: Aliyy Seyalioglu
PURPOSE SECTION
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
Nutrition and Health Act of 2017
FOR the purpose of the health of the people of this country, something must be done to help the people stay healthy and know that they are healthy with the foods they are eating. Ever since GMOs, genetically modified organisms, were introduced, the rates of many disorders such as autism greatly increased. Many chronic illness rates were doubled to date. This bill’ purpose is to have all foods in the state of California to be fully checked and have been certified GMO or non-GMO, and if they are GMO, it will be marked clearly to see on the product that it is GMO, and will have a warning on the possible effects of it. This will make …show more content…
14 Section 1 - ENACTMENT CLAUSE
15 Every food product made with, containing, or having to do with crops have to be checked
16 and certified if the product contains any GMO. If it is not GMO, no further actions are
17 required. However, if the product does contain any trace of GMO, it must be clearly
18 marked on the product that it contains GMO. There must also be an explanation of what
19 GMOs are and what possible effects on the consumer’s health it may have so that the
20 consumer is fully aware of what is going into their body by eating the food product. In
21 addition to getting their food products checked for containing GMO or not, food
22 companies must pay a the government a fee of 5% of the cost of each of their GMO
23 products put to market. 50% of that money will go to the government’s general funds,
24 and the other 50% will not be used for anything that has to do anything other than foods.
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26 Section 2 - ENFORCEMENT
27 The department in government that shall be responsible of this bill will be the