Senate Bill No. 8-9 intention is to expand the authority of the director to respond to dangerous products contained in food and drug products.
It s goal is also to improve the ability of the Palauan government to inspect and destroy questionable products.The bill said that under the current law the director has no explicit authority to ban importation of food and medicine considered to be hazardous.“In many regions, it has been common practice for expired or potentially unsafe products to be fed to livestock that is then slaughtered and sold for human consumption,” the committee report said.It added that though it was safe before it is now in fact hazardous to public health.The bill also expand products that should be disposed, it includes those products with no expiration date.The bill also requires all canned, bottled, or packaged foodstuffs to be labeled in English or Palauan.Non-prescription medicine medication offered for sale should be also labeled in English and should include, name of drug, active ingredients, dosage and storage directions.
