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Standardizing products

Synonyms:
Agreeing product standards
Broader:
Establishing standards
Narrower:
Approving building products
Standardizing product safety
Standardizing steel products
Standardizing man made fibres
Standardizing quick frozen foods
Ensuring competent production of consumer goods
Establishing standards on milk and milk products
Preventing illegal international traffic of toxic chemicals
Changing standards that discriminate against recycled materials
Improving standards to encourage use of environmentally sound recycled materials
Facilitates:
Banning advertising of socially harmful products
Problems:
Commercially exploitative food labelling
Restrictive agreements on product standards
Subjects:
Industry → Products
Research, Standards → Standards
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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