Massive Multinational Assault on Alternative Medicines [Pan recall]
Australians deliberately denied access to more than one thousand products
ranging from vitamin pills to multi-mineral supplements

Copyright Joe Vialls, 2 May 2003
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/subliminalsuggestion/vitamins.html
In less than seven days! " The ever-compliant media immediately started
circulating rumors about 'that dangerous Travacalm', and hinted at mixing
machines not being cleaned properly between blending batches of different
products. One former employee was produced on television, to state that he
was only allowed one hour to clean his mixing machine between batches
instead of three hours, and that was that. The media fix was in, despite a
total lack of evidence."
Under cover of the fake "SARS Crisis" currently saturating the western
media, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has suddenly moved to
outlaw and remove from store shelves about 80% of all vitamin and other
related alternative products. Although less than a week ago customers were
happily buying everything from vitamin A to G, and enthusiastically chewing
every conceivable mineral and trace element, these same customers today face
empty shelves in more than 5,000 health food stores across the nation.
American and European readers who may be wondering "What has this Australian
stuff got to do with me?" are urged to read on a little further. Australia
is well known as a gullible and thus attractive proving ground for
multinational scams, meaning that what happens in Oz this week, might well
serve as a foretaste of what is yet to come in America and Europe next week,
or next month, or even next year.
The extraordinary situation facing Australians today, started at the
beginning of this week, when the Therapeutic Goods Administration [TGA]
suddenly decided to cancel the manufacturing license of Pan Pharmaceuticals,
a large Australian company which not only manufactures its own line of
medicines, but also provides a manufacturing service for 80% of all
alternative goods providers across Australia. Basically then, by shutting
down Pan Pharmaceuticals without just cause, the TGA ensured that
alternative health goods purveyors and customers would be critically
disadvantaged across the entire nation.
To suggest [or even think] that the TGA action was deliberately designed to
shut down natural health products in favor of the huge pharmaceutical
multinationals and their coal-tar synthetic drugs, at first seems ill
advised, perhaps even absurd. But unfortunately for the TGA, we can and will
prove in a proper step-by-step investigation, that the shutdown process was
premeditated and deliberate.
Members of the Therapeutic Goods Administration are Australia's medical
goods "thought police", endowed by government with incredible powers. There
are documented examples of these people shutting down retail health food
businesses for daring to suggest that cheap apricot kernels might retard
[not "cure"] cancer, while at the same time other members of the TGA were
busy endorsing the massive use of highly-addictive and extremely profitable
amphetamines on Australian children, with alleged but unproven "learning
disorders".
Every scam needs a convincing trigger to start the desired chain of events.
In the case of Pan Pharmaceuticals the trigger was an in-house medicine
called "Travacalm", designed as its name suggests to combat motion sickness
in its various manifestations. The TGA allegedly received complaints in late
2002 about this medicine, including claims of minor "hallucinations". In an
apparent response to these uncorroborated claims, on 21 January 2003
Travacalm Original tablets AUST R 78192 were recalled, with the official
reason given as "The product is being recalled following a number of reports
of excess side effects related to the active ingredient."
Fine so far, and the TGA certainly seemed to be acting responsibly, but it
was not. You see, there are actually three versions of Travacalm, but only
the "Original" version was recalled. Travacalm Original is unique in its
active ingredient dimenhydrinate, which is not contained in Travacalm H.O
[hyoscine hydrobromide], or in Travacalm Natural, which contains only
zingiber officinale [natural ginger].
So by banning Travacalm Original but not the other two Travacalm products,
the TGA revealed to us all that it was really only banning the single
ingredient dimenhydrinate, the active antihistamine not present in either
the H.O. or Natural versions of Travacalm.
There is nothing unique or secret about the side effects of dimenhydrinate,
which have been known for many years. Users can be subject to headache,
blurred vision, palpitations, loss of coordination, dry mouth, low blood
pressure causing dizziness and weakness, and ringing in the ears. What are
less widely known, are the disturbing hallucinogenic side effects of
dimenhydrinate experienced by many experimental users with access to the
Internet.
A good description is posted at
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/legalize/drugs/dimenhydrinate/ "It takes about
an hour for the full effects of this drug to be reached, maybe even more.
You know when it hits you though. The most screwed up thing is a complete
loss of balance. Walking around without falling on your a.s is quite the
challenge. Small hallucinations are possible (your pen sprouts legs and
begins a journey across your desk). And auditory hallucinations (hearing s.)
come into the picture at higher doses. "Short-term memory is shot to f.. As
soon as you finish a thought, you forget what it was you were thinking
about. To the casual observer, you would look quite weird. Slack-jawed, red
faced, dilated pupils, possibly a hunched posture, maybe even drooling. The
feeling is like floating on a cloud during a hurricane (or something to that
effect)."Obviously then, all medications including dimenhydrinate are
potentially very dangerous and capable of producing hallucinations, which
leads us to question why it was that on 21 January 2003, the Australian
Therapeutic Goods Administration recalled only Pan Pharmaceutical's
Travacalm Original, while leaving other medicines with higher levels of
dimenhydrinate on the open market.
These other dimenhydrinate medicines include [but are not limited to] Calm
X, Dimetabs, Dinate, Dommanate, Dramamine, Dramanate, Dramocen, Dramoject,
Dymenate, Hydrate, Marmine, Nico-Vert, Tega-Vert, Triptone, and Vertab. All
without exception should also have been ordered off the shelves, but were
not.
Predictably perhaps, all of the other dimenhydrinate medicines are
manufactured by pharmaceutical multinationals "friendly" to members of the
Therapeutic Goods Administration, and unconfirmed rumors still persist about
certain senior TGA bureaucrats being discreetly provided with free "medical
seminars" in Fiji or Bali, complete with all essential extras including
unlimited alcohol and prostitutes.
Regardless of the fine detail of exactly how this situation was engineered,
by February 2003 Australian Pan Pharmaceuticals had been artificially
"dirtied", and was ripe for the picking. The scene had been set for the
biggest recall of natural health products in Australia - perhaps in the
world. The scam itself started on Monday 28 April, and a mere four days
later on Thursday 1 May, the TGA had identified and ordered 1,363 complete
product lines to be stripped from store shelves across Australia. Does
anyone out there really believe that a bunch of lazy bureaucrats managed all
that in four days, without considerable forward planning?
So by Thursday 1 May, one thousand three hundred and sixty-three complete
product lines had been officially recalled, meaning hundreds of millions of
alternative health pills and capsules had to be stripped from the shelves,
leaving Australian consumers understandably anxious. To claim that this TGA
action "undermined public confidence in alternative health", would be
seriously understating the case.
Naturally the Therapeutic Goods Administration provided no details of why
this was happening, though the ever-compliant media immediately started
circulating rumors about "that dangerous Travacalm", and hinted at mixing
machines not being cleaned properly between blending batches of different
products. One former employee was produced on television, to state that he
was only allowed one hour to clean his mixing machine between batches
instead of three hours, and that was that. The media fix was in, despite a
total lack of evidence.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians were suddenly deprived of the ability
to buy their chosen alternative health products, and "doubt" had also been
deliberately cast over the safety of the alternative health products already
in their homes. Many Australians started to grumble that the alternative
health manufacturers were no better than the hated drug companies: all of
them obviously out to make a quick buck without the slightest regard for
public safety. Lines of demarcation became blurred, and customers started to
mill around like lost sheep.
Hard evidence to hand indicates that the undermining of public confidence,
and the resulting confusion, were the prime object of the exercise, because
there is no proof that any of these 1,363 product lines pose the slightest
risk to human health. Ironically perhaps, in its headlong rush to shepherd
Australians back towards out-of-fashion medical doctors and their wide range
of synthetic coal-tar based drugs, the Therapeutic Goods Administration
reinforced the reality of perfect safety with official statements.
Putting its foot firmly in its mouth, the TGA publicly announced three times
in less than a week, "there are no problems with prescription drugs obtained
from your doctor", and "prescription drugs are not affected". This was
unquestionably reassuring news for potential patients being herded back
towards the medical profession, and even greater news for the pharmaceutical
multinationals, who up to this point in history have been losing A$2,000
million per year in Australia alone to alternative health products.
Unfortunately there was a fatal flaw in these glib and very convenient TGA
statements. Though Pan Pharmaceuticals is best known for its own alternative
health products, and as a contract manufacturer for 80% of all other
alternative health products across Australia, it is also a significant
producer of a wide range of in-house and contract "prescription drugs".
Those prescription drugs manufactured by Pan are still in your doctor's
surgery, and they are still on the shelves at the pharmacy, despite the
startling fact that all were produced in the same allegedly "unclean" mixing
machines as the 1,363 banned alternative health products.
In summary, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration recalled a Pan
dimenhydrinate product in January 2003 but failed to recall its fifteen
multinational equivalents at the same time. The TGA also failed to issue a
public warning about the possible hallucinogenic side effects of
dimenhydrinate. In late April the Therapeutic Goods Administration started a
whispering campaign against Pan Pharmaceuticals, with the intent of severely
undermining public confidence in alternative health products. This latter
claim has now been proved by the selective TGA recall of all 1,363 Pan
Pharmaceutical alternative health products, but without the recall of a
single Pan Pharmaceutical "prescription medicine".
It is difficult to forecast the long-term outcome of this deliberate
campaign, because no one yet knows what the multinational pharmaceutical
corporations will instruct the Australian TGA to do next. Certainly the
massed media campaign has already severely undermined Australian public
confidence in alternative health products, and for a few weeks or months it
will be very difficult [in some cases impossible], to even purchase fresh
stocks of vitamins, minerals and so on. In turn, this forced lack of trade
will send thousands of small alternative health retails outlets into
bankruptcy.
Using these techniques, the multinational pharmaceuticals seek to "break the
alternative consumer habit" if possible, and to an extent they will be
successful. The "hard core" alternative crowd will not respond of course,
and if necessary will import their own products, but it is not the "hard
core" that the multinationals seek to undermine.
It is "middle" Australia [and America and Europe] that the multinationals
are targeting. Millions of intelligent folk who used to go to medical
doctors all the time, until they started to pick up the warning signs of the
horrific side-effects of prescription medicines. These are the people who
must be weaned off healthy products, and brought back under direct medical
control.
The fake Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration scam will certainly
help to do this, and if only 50% effective, should still return roughly one
billion dollars per annum to multinational pharmaceutical investors. Not a
bad return for the price of a few hookers in Fiji and Bali.

Restricting accessibility to alternative health products
http://friendsoffreedom.org
Inge's Comment: After reading Dr. Rath's report on halting the "artificially
manufactured SARS hysteria", I would like you to consider the following
COINCIDENCES with alarm.
Since Plan A (Shock and Awe - with weapons of mass destruction) and Plan B
(creating an artificial medical emergency - the SARS hysteria) have both
been sabotaged with the public injection of TRUTH by Dr. Rath,  Plan C is
suddenly emerging.  The pharmaceutical/ military/ new-world-order syndicate
has no intention of allowing simple and inexpensive PROVEN CURES to destroy
their global control, power, or profits.How can the pharmaceutical cartel
eliminate this competitive threat - Simple!
Plan C.  Restrict accessibility! Over the years, all the smaller
supplement-manufacturing companies have been bought out or forced out of the
marketplace by the giant multinational pharmaceuticals, and now there are a
just few 'pharmaceutical' companies which manufacture the world's supply of
Vitamin C, and most other supplements - and therefore, have the capacity to
regulate - or eliminate - the supply. (Truly the fox owning and guarding the
chicken coup.)Can this all be coincidence?
Suddenly I read that Vitamin C is not available in Chili - because of a
worldwide 'manufacturing' shortage.Then I read today that because of "sudden
and sweeping government intervention on justification of a necessary
investigation into violations of Good Manufacturing Practice, "Pan
Pharmaceuticals saw its complete line of supplements production recalled,
practically ruining the natural products industry in Australia. I am waiting
to see how many other such capers will appear in other countries, unless Dr.
Rath can embarrass the syndicate by publicly exposing their tactics once
again.
At the same time, The New York Times ran a series of articles last week,
alerting the public to "the dangers of overdosing on supplements". (These
articles naturally made no mention of the fact that pharmaceutical drugs are
now the fourth leading cause of death in America - while death from
supplements are as scare as hen's teeth.)
How convenient! Scare the hell out of the consuming public, and REMOVE the
supply.
Do they really take us for complete idiots who cannot to see through their
manipulative policies of deception?
But most of all, SHAME on all the governments and their regulatory agencies,
which have allowed themselves to become infiltrated and controlled, and now
shamefully demonstrate their willingness "to sell their own citizens down
the drain - camouflaged under the pretense of protecting us from ourselves".
SHAME, SHAME,  SHAME!
May I remind those in collusion with the pharmaceutical syndicate's agenda,
or those who prefer to continue wearing blinkers, that their families also
get sick, and that their health is also ruled by the "sickness industry",
and that they may someday find themselves desperately praying to have access
to the natural remedies that work - and there are MANY  that have been
eliminated through persecution, prosecution, and conspiratorial regulations.
(We destroyed the life-saving discoveries of geniuses like Dr. William Koch,
or Dr. Royal Rife - both of whom gave us universal treatments for infectious
diseases, and we ignored and maligned the clinical discoveries of Dr. Fred
Klenner - who cured polio already in the 40-s and 50's.  Did we really need
a polio vaccine (since we had 3 ignored cures) - while the vaccine resulted
in contaminating entire populations with SV40 - which has been shown to
cause specific new cancers?)
Your health is hanging in the balance. Your freedom is hanging in the
balance. Indeed, your life is hanging in the balance!
Inge Hanle
mailto: hanle@axion.net
P.S.  Please help us to get the TRUTH out - and to remove the shackles of
fear that has a suffocating stranglehold on people when they do not know nor
suspect the deception.  The main media is embedded, or too scared to tackle
this subject for fear of retribution.  So it is up to us, and individual
citizens, to protect ourselves and our fellowman.
The TRUTH shall make us free again!
Thank you for your help and participation.
Dr. Rath's website is http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/
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How Dr. Rath brought the SARS epidemic "under control"
http://friendsoffreedom.org
How Dr. Rath and $30,000 in Public Health Advertising by the Dr. Rath Health
Foundation brought the SARS epidemic "under control"
Throughout the Iraq war, Dr Rath has exposed the Rockefeller Group and the
pharmaceutical/ petrochemical cartel as the largest benefactors of a war
with weapons of mass destruction. This war would be abused to abolish civil
rights worldwide, guarantee the survival of the pharmaceutical industry and
establish the monopoly of the pharmaceutical cartel over global health.
Unmasking the 'war plan' of these corporate interest groups behind the
military war against Iraq and exposing these groups as even benefiting from
a war led with weapons of mass destruction, made it impossible for them to
do just that - to risk a war with weapons of mass destruction.The very same
week that Dr. Rath published his open letter exposing the
"Rockefeller-financed Trilateral Commission" behind the Bush-Administration'
s war, the plan for the use of weapons of mass destruction was dropped. That
very same week the Pharma-Cartel launched their Plan B: the SARS epidemic.By
the middle of March, all of a sudden, the news were dominated with the
buzz-word 'SARS' and a global scare campaign was launched. The SARS epidemic
was a man made PR-stunt with the goal of creating the global psychological
state that would allow the pharmaceutical cartel to create in people the
state of mind enabling it to continue its rule - even with an Iraq war
fought only with conventional weapons.Dr. Rath and his team recognized this
strategy and called their bluff. He knew the scientific fact that all
viruses including the virus that causes SARS (corona virus) can be largely
blocked by optimum use of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and other essential
nutrients.
Dozens of studies with different viruses have all confirmed that there is no
known virus that does not respond to vitamin C. In a study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, it was shown that
vitamin C alone can block even the HIV/ AIDS-Virus by more than 99 %
(Proceedings Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1990, 87, 7245-9).
Knowing these facts, Dr. Rath decided to publish full page Public Health
Alerts in newspapers in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. The title
was "Vitamin C against SARS". The subtitle read "What everyone should know -
but the World Health Organization (WHO) does not tell you - about natural
protection from the new epidemic."Dr. Rath's public health information
informed people in the countries most affected, about the benefits of
vitamin C and other essential nutrients to optimize the immune system and
help prevent the spread of SARS. But this Public Health Alert, financed by
the Dr. Rath Health Foundation, was also a harsh criticism of the World
Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Rath criticized the WHO, founded half a
century ago to promote human health, to be undermined and abused by
pharmaceutical investment interests.This investment industry is based on the
patentability of drugs and continues to instrumental the WHO to serve
primarily the promotion of patentable, profitable prescription drugs. In
fact, there is no other reason why the World Health Organization would fail
to fulfill its obligation and bring the life saving information about the
health benefits of essential nutrients to the people of the world.
The text for the open letters was submitted to the newspapers on 9th April
2003 and under-went a meticulous review in the respective countries,
including by one Ministry of Health. This review process alone made sure
that the information about the effectiveness of a non-patentable natural
substance, vitamin C, for the natural control of the SARS epidemic is
available everywhere and can and must be used.
The publication date for Dr. Rath's health information in these Asian
countries was set for Saturday 12th of April 2003. The advent of the "Public
Health Information Campaign by the Dr. Rath Health Foundation" and the
public exposure of WHO as a puppet of the pharmaceutical cartel, rang alarm
bells within the WHO. In fear of the loss of its credibility with the people
of the world, this world body had to react. Disputing the scientific facts
was no option. So the only way out was a withdrawal of the scare tactics.
Their basic message: It's not that bad.Thus, on the very same day that
millions of people in Asia woke up to the stunning news of fighting SARS
with vitamin C they must have been even more stunned by the WHO making a 180
degree turn around. Referring to the WHO's medical officer Mike Ryan, the
New York Times reported for the world to know: "Virus Called Mostly Under
Control".What a remarkable day. After having launched one of the largest
media stunts in the history of planet earth, the pharmaceutical cartel and
its allies within the WHO had to withdraw it within hours of Dr. Rath
calling their bluff.
Dr. Rath comments: "I have been fighting the pharmaceutical cartel for more
than a decade now, but this success overshadows everything. The
pharmaceutical interest groups - exposed as conducting an organized fraud
business that risks the life of millions of people and drains the economies
of this planet - are apparently extremely nervous. There can be no other
reason why they reacted so fast following my exposure that the
pharmaceutical cartel is the organizer and benefactor of this man made
hysteria. This fact should open the eyes of every intelligent person: How
scared must they be if $30,000 in public health advertising is all it takes
to stop an epidemic that has been dominating the news around the world."
After having been denied the opportunity to escalate the war against Iraq
into a war with weapons of mass destruction: after having been denied the
possibility to abuse such an event to abandon civil rights around the world
for its own survival, the pharmaceutical cartel has just suffered another
blow.
The people of the world are one step further toward recognizing the true
nature of the pharmaceutical cartel as an unscrupulous investment group
around the Rockefeller group. The pharmaceutical investment industry has
sacrificed more lives over the past decades for their unscrupulous "business
with disease" than the number of people who died in all wars of mankind put
together.
The people of planet earth are waking up to the fact that there is a special
interest group among us that not only took control of the White House and
controls news dissemination around the world through their ownership of Time
Warner, CNN and other news channels, but also abuses these instruments to
impose wars and epidemics on our planet.
It's time for a change. We ask you to support the People's Agenda for a new
world of health, peace and social
justice._________________________________________________
Script addicts loath to admit natural medicine is effective
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/
natural_health_alternatives/2003-05-02.htm
Australian President of Complementary Healthcare Council defends vitamins
and minerals following the TGA attack
(smh.com.au / May 2, 2003) -- It is the medical experts decrying alternative
therapies who are ill informed, not the public, writes Ian Brighthope.
The recent medicine recall has flushed out the detractors of natural
medicine who have hijacked the situation to criticise the efficacy of
complementary medicine.
Reading some of the reports from ill-informed professors of medicine who are
suddenly instant experts in complementary medicine, it would be easy to
believe the Australian public is stupid.
Foolish, misguided and dim, millions of people are being misled, taking
natural health products because they are "longing for a little bit of
mysticism" and quite content to waste "millions of consumer dollars".
There is a wealth of scientific evidence to support the use of natural
health products, including:
The mineral selenium: a randomised, controlled trial of this supplement had
to be stopped because of "the apparent reductions in total cancer mortality
and total cancer incidence" in the experimental group. The researchers could
no longer ethically justify not giving this substance to the placebo group
(Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996).
Lactobacillus bacteria: if pregnant women take Lactobacillus bacteria every
day, the risk of their newborn babies having atopic eczema, a horrible,
distressing and painful condition, halves (The Lancet, 2001).
The vitamins folic acid and B12: if everyone diagnosed with heart disease
took these vitamins, we would save 310,000 lives over five years in the US
alone (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001).
St John's wort: this herb is commonly used for mild and moderate depression;
a meta-analysis of trials in 1996, published in the British Medical Journal,
showed that it was as effective as standard antidepressants, but with fewer
side effects.
I could also quote research about vitamin C, zinc, the herb saw palmetto and
dozens of other substances.
But it's not just about studies and research, although there are many of
these to support the use of natural health products. As a practising GP, I
don't think the Australian public is stupid. I have been a nutritional
doctor for 25 years, and I have treated thousands of patients, frequently
very sick people, with all manner of illnesses including cancers and
psychiatric diseases. I rarely prescribe drugs - I write, on average, only
four scripts a year. Consumers take natural health products for one simple
reason: because they work. People feel better, and they get better.
The Pan recall is a terrible event, terrible for consumers who no longer
have access to products they use and trust. It is also terrible for small
businesses - the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia estimates 500
small businesses will be forced to close, and 5000 Australians will be out
of work.
The recall was caused by quality defects highlighted in the case of badly
manufactured Travacalm. This involved serious side effects for the people
affected, but this is not a natural health product. Travacalm is a drug - an
over-the-counter pharmacy-only medicine that was poorly manufactured and
quite rightly recalled.
Despite the attacks from those pushing their own agendas, the natural
product industry will survive this, and be strengthened by it. The
overriding message is that the system works.
The natural products industry continues to liaise closely with the
Therapeutic Goods Administration to identify ways we can move forward and
limit the potential damage for our industry, at the same time ensuring that
the highest levels of safety for Australians are maintained.

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Pharma-Cartel Runs Amok.
The Global Deception campaign denying the health benefits of Vitamins can no
longer prevent the collapse of the Pharmaceutical House of Cards
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/
pharmaceutical_business/2003-05-06.htm
The following headlines appeared recently in newspapers and other news
sources around the world:
Watchdog warning on vitamin pills
CNN / May 08, 2003
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/pharmaceutical_b
usiness/2003-05-08-3.htm
Vitamins can damage your health, warns watchdog
The Times / May 08, 2003 by Valerie Elliott
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/pharmaceutical_b
usiness/2003-05-08-1.htm
Too many vitamin pills can be bad for you
IOL, Reuters / May 08, 2003
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/pharmaceutical_b
usiness/2003-05-08-2.htm
Warning over vitamin doses
BBC News / May 07, 2003
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/pharmaceutical_b
usiness/2003-05-07-2.htm
Health Risk Warning Over High Doses Of Vitamin Pills
Sunday Times / May 04, 2003 by Jonathan Leake
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/pharmaceutical_b
usiness/2003-05-06-2.htm
Vitamins: More May Be Too Many
New York Times / April 29, 2003 by Gina Kolata
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2003/pharmaceutical_b
usiness/2003-05-06-1.htm
Don't be fooled by this propaganda!These pieces of irresponsible journalism
have a single common purpose - to discredit safe and effective natural
remedies. The comments made in these reports fly in the face of the huge
volume of scientific evidence accumulated over the past sixty years or more,
that attests to the health benefits of vitamins and other essential
micronutrients.
The negative comments quoted in both the New York Times (April 29th) and The
Sunday Times (May 4th) follow in a long line of positions taken by the
organization referred to in these reports that include: Nothing Is Wrong
With DDT and Diesel Exhaust Emissions Pose No Risk To School Children. The
report of the Expert Committee on Vitamins and Minerals (EVM) referred to by
the Sunday Times and in the later reports, was first published in August
2002. The EVM in fact failed in its brief, which was to set so-called safe
upper limits for certain vitamins and minerals. Due to a lack of evidence of
any adverse effects, the EVM managed to propose safe upper limits for only 9
out of the 34 micronutrients that it studied and the limits that it did
propose are scientifically questionable.
As usual, the press are trying to blow this out of all proportion and start
a scare story. No doubt we shall shortly see the absurd 'Vitamin C Causes
Cancer' story making the headlines yet again. It seems that the
pharma-cartel have decided that attack is their best form of defence and
that creating panic (a la SARS) is a good tactic.
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May 28, 2003
To: American Association for Health Freedom: Candace Campbell, Dr.Shari
Leiberman
To: National Health Federation: c/o Wes- to Maureen Salaman, Mike Culbert,
Scott Tips,JD
To: American Holistic Health Association: c/o Suzan Walter
EMERGENCY ALERT: PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY
Friends:
I am driving a 6 hour round trip from BC Canada today to Seattle for an
emergency meeting with Jonathan Wright, MD in an effort to spur direly
needed donations to the Alliance for Natural Health in the UK so that they
can file an ALL IMPORTANT LAWSUIT no later than JULY to overturn the EU Food
Supplement Directive.
I urgently need your assistence to spread the word about this: please see my
article at http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html it includes photos and a
table. I made a trip to the UK in march to generate it, where I spoke at the
Vitality Vitamin Trade Show in London before a large group of alternative
medical practitioners, vitamin companies, health food stores and consumers
pledging IAHF's support for ANH's legal effort due to its extreme global
importance.
An editted version of my article will appear in the next issue of Life
Extension Magazine. Unfortunately, it has been watered down and I fear that
the urgency in my message was removed via the editting process which was
overly fraught with "political correctness" stemming from an ignorant editor
who has never worked in our industry before and doesn't understand the
issues. (See their version at
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/2003_preprint_eu_01.html
The EU is expanding by 10 new countries next year.
All will politically allign with Germany and France, because they
politically dominate the EU- (proof is in my article.)
One year ago a draconian EU Food Supplements Directive was passed into EU
law, and England and all other EU member states have a deadline of July to
harmonize their domestic law to it. Alliance for Natural Health is a very
solid organization established by all the alternative medical organizations
in England as a last ditch effort there to defend consumer access to
supplements, not only in England, but globally due to how events in the EU
will impact Codex and WTO trade disputes in this area.
They have the best law firm in England working with them, one of the few
firms that has ever succeeded in overturning an EU Directive, and we CAN win
in court to monkeywrench the Cartel's global juggernaut, but NOT WITHOUT
URGENT DONATIONS to ANH that can be made via credit card via their website
at http://www.alliance-natural-health.org
My reason for going to Dr.Wright today is simple:
The FDA raid against his Tahoma Clinic in the early 90s helped catalyze the
drive to pass DSHEA, and now we have no choice but to do our damndest to get
the rest of the world to harmonize to DSHEA, or the consequence will be that
WE will continue to be set up for harmonization to a grossly restrictive
unfolding international standard.
I need Wright to help me reach out to vitamin companies which have been LIED
TO on this issue by IADSA, a controlled opposition group which I have
exposed at http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com IADSA is "led" by Randy Dennin,
an employee of Pfizer, the largest drug company in the world, and his goal
is NOT to "protect" us, it is to DESTROY us, while only going through the
MOTIONS of "protecting" us. The smoking gun is shown on the IADSA exposed
site where you can see that IADSA kicked NNFA New Zealand out of their
umbrella group for asking "too many questions" about gross conflicts of
interest, and ESPECIALLY for calling IADSA to task for doing NOTHING to
protect New Zealand's very liberal food based regulations from harmonization
to Australia's overly stringent, pharmaceuticalized regs.
Since building the IADSA exposed site last fall, you should be aware that in
Australia the TGA (their FDA) has just engaged in a fraudulent recall of
over 1300 dietary supplement products which were yanked from the shelves
without a SHRED OF EVIDENCE that they were in any way "contaminated."
Ron Law, former exec dir of NNFA New Zealand, the man who sent me the
documentation used in the IADSA EXPOSED website had an article titled
Natural Justice? published in The Independent, New Zealand's largest
business newspaper to condemn and expose as fraudulent this TGA recall, and
also to expose lies from New Zealand's health minister, Anette King, who
wrongly extended the recall to Pan's dietary supplement products sold in New
Zealand based strictly on HEARSAY EVIDENCE from TGA that the recall was
"necessary." (See that article at http://www.iahf.com/asia/20030520.html
Canada is in the process right now of being harmonized to Australia, and
IAHF ally Friends of Freedom in Ontario will attempt to get an injunction in
court this month to stop the scheduled June 4th gazetting of new regulations
that totally slam the Canadian industry, opening them up for exactly the
same kind of attack via manufacturing site licenses (which can be pulled on
a whim) by regulators as illustrated by the Pan recall in Austrlalia. FoF is
also attempting to get Bill C-420 through the Canadian Parliament in a last
ditch effort to protect consumer access to supplements north of the 49th
parallel.
Canada is our northern flank. Efforts are already underway to form a carbon
copy of the EU Dictatorship in our hemisphere to be called the "Free Trade
Area of the Americas" and all of this is discussed in my article.
The Cartel's takeover of our industry is deliberately INCREMENTAL, long and
drawn out, HOWEVER, if we fail to act at KEY MOMENTS to COUNTER their agenda
of globalization and harmonization of the laws world wide, we WON'T BE ABLE
to defend DSHEA.
Keep in mind that the FIX is ALREADY IN: On March 20, 2001, Congress
WHITEWASHED an oversight hearing on the Codex vitamin issue, and the truth
did not come out about how the FDA is setting us up for the harmonization of
our laws to a grossly restrictive international standard.
NNFA's pharmaceutically dominated DC lobbying firm Parry, Romani, DeConcini
and Symms (which has numerous multinational pharmaceutical clients including
Pfizer) played a major role in the WHITEWASHING of that hearing, mostly via
the instigation of Pfizer, the largest drug company in the world.
They wouldn't let me testify, or any of my witnesses including Richard
Malter, PhD. Malter wrote a scholarly rebuttal to a paper which FDA had the
pharmaceutically dominated National Academy of Science generate titled "A
Risk Assessment Model for Establishing the Safety of Dietary Supplements"
Malter's rebuttal was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
The FDA is setting us up to lose in a WTO trade dispute by generating a
false definition of vitamin safety. The only legal means by which we can
keep our domestic law from being harmonized to a highly draconian
international standard is on a basis of safety, and FDA is setting us up so
we won't be able to defend ourselves in a WTO Trade Dispute, which would be
settled in an international court that does not follow US rules of evidence:
the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body. The DSB is a mickey mouse court which
rubber stamps the greed driven agendas of the multinational corporations.
Every decision they have made has gone against the public health, against
the environment, against human rights, against labor rights, against all the
intangibles that go into the making of a nation's laws.
Please see my article at http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html and help
generate donations to ANH by the July deadline so they can file suit in the
European Court of Justice to overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive. If
this Directive is not overturned, there will be NO WAY TO STOP a grossly
restrictive vitamin standard from being driven through at CODEX, and then
EXPANDED at Codex to parallel the expansion of the EU Food Supplement
Directive in a few years. This is one of those KEY MOMENTS during the
Cartel's long drawn out takeover in which we MUST ACT. If they catch us
napping now, we're done for down the road. This is our last chance to defend
this industry from global destruction, the last chance to stop the unfolding
of a slow motion train wreck. Please communicate with me about this. I need
your active support to spread this alert rapidly.
John Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
in BC Canada until June 7th at 604-597-7821, thereafter in VA at
800-333-2553
________________________
http://www.iahf.com/asia/20030520.html
Ron Law from New Zealand comments below on the recent Australian recall of
over 1300 dietary supplement products. His article Natural Justice? was
published in the Independent, the largest business newspaper in New Zealand.
He quite correctly questions the Australian TGA's actions, as well as New
Zealand Health Minister Annette King's actions in ordering a mandatory
recall on Pan's products in New Zealand, going strictly on a basis of TGA
hearsay evidence.
Moreover, he catches King in a series of lies, discussed below, pertaining
to her loud contention that New Zealand "must harmonize" its laws to
Australia in order to "properly protect the public health." This summer the
US FDA intends to violate the law (DSHEA), which requires them to draft FOOD
BASED GMPs for dietary supplements, but the FDA is on the verge of coming
out with GMPs even STRICTER than pharmaceutical GMPs, which will force
attorney Jonathan Emord to file yet another lawsuit in order to reign them
in. I predict right now what FDA and Congressional sycophants such as
Senator Dick Durbin, and Congressman Henry Waxman will do, (with massive
backing from the mainstream media): they will attempt to LIE about this TGA
recall (EXACTLY AS New Zealand Health Minister Annette King has been) in an
effort to "justify" FDA ignoring our current law, and Durbin and Waxman will
attempt to ALSO LIE ABOUT THIS in an effort to get cosponsors on their bill
(Waxman is drafting a House companion bill.)
As these events unfold in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA, in Canada,
the HPB is busy harmonizing Canada to Australia by seeking to slam dunk the
supplement industry via Gazette 2, while Friends of Freedom in Ontario
attempts to fight back by reintroducing David Rowland's lawsuit charging the
HPB with flagrant violations of Canadian's rights under the terms of the
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In attempting to screw the Canadian people
via Gazette 2, the HPB is attempting to blatantly ignore the fervently
expressed wishes of the Canadian people who voted with their feet against
HPB oppression in 1997, but rather than secure the victory that they thought
they had secured, all that really happened was that the large companies
trying to knock off their smaller competition succeeded in pulling the wool
over people's eyes, "led" by dubious "leadership" in the pharmaceutically
dominated Canadian Health Food Association. Health Canada literature handed
out to supplement industry role players under the guise of "soliciting
public comments" (which HPB always ignores) flat out state that Canada is
harmonizing to Australia.
The same exact pattern has been occurring in England, and America: where
pharmaceutically dominated vitamin trade associations are leading their rank
and file membership to the cliff, while keeping the consuming public in the
dark about the onrushing genocide. "Leading the way" in this global scam is
so called "International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Trade Associations"
(IADSA) which has been exposed at http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com The
smoking gun which exposed IADSA as fraudulent is that they kicked NNFA New
Zealand out of their umbrella group, refusing to do anything to help them
fend off pressure from much larger Australia to harmonize their very liberal
food based dietary supplement regs to Australia's highly onerous
pharmaceutically based regs which are the strictest in the world. Here, Ron
Law exposes the lie that there is any NEED for New Zealand (or ANY nation)
to harmonize to Australia's regs.
The fraudulent TGA recall is timed to attempt to cast extreme doubt on the
safety of dietary supplements in order to coincide with the passage of the
EU's Food Supplement Directive, which is timed to spur completion of a
draconian vitamin standard at Codex within the next couple of years which
will be made possible by the EU expanding by 10 more nations next year (all
of which will fall in line behind Germany and France, which politically
dominate the EU. A carbon copy of the EU Dictatorship called the "Free Trade
Area of the Americas" is intended for our hemisphere, whereby the intention
is to harmonize the USA's dietary supplement laws to Australia (via Canada)
and to the EU. The intention is to isolate us, and take us LAST, using the
SAME MECHANISMS being seen right now in Australia and Europe.
The FDA has already set us up to lose in a WTO Trade Dispute via which our
dietary supplement laws can be forcibly harmonized to a grossly restrictive
international standard by falsely defining dietary supplement safety. This
has been done via FDA's illegally introducing an unscientific,
pharmaceutically funded paper at Codex in direct violation of current US
law, titled "A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Safe Upper Levels for
Nutrients" Congress whitewashed an oversight hearing on March 20, 2001 where
they truth regarding this unscientific paper and FDA's illegal action could
have been exposed. The hearing was whitewashed due to the political
influence of pharmaceutically dominated NNFA's lobbying firm on Capital
Hill- Parry, Romani, DeConcini and Symms- which has numerous multinational
pharmaceutical clients, including Pfizer, the world's largest drug company.
I was not allowed to testify, and neither were any of my witnesses including
Richard Malter, PhD, who authored a scholarly rebuttal to the NAS so called
"Risk Assessment" paper. Malter's rebuttal was published in the Journal of
Orthomolecular Medicine.
FDA continues to mount an attack on DSHEA by commissioning the NAS to
generate totally unnecessary so called "safety monographs" against the best
selling, most popular dietary supplements- with the intention of setting us
up for harmonization to grossly draconian international standards. These
monographs are being "developed" for melatonin, DHEA, saw palmetto extract,
glucosamine, shark cartilage, chapparel, and chromium picolinate. Just 10
days after Congress whitewashed the Codex oversight hearing where NNFA's
International Committee Co Chair Karl Reidel made the highly questionable
statement under oath that the USA "is not in jeopardy" of having its dietary
supplement laws harmonized to a grossly restrictive international standard,
his co chair on the International Committee, Randy Dennin, employee of
Pfizer, was Chairing a meeting of IADSA in South Africa titled "Toward a
Global Regulatory Model". It is painfully clear through Dennin's kicking
NNFA New Zealand out of IADSA and doing nothing to protect New Zealand from
massive pressure to harmonize to Australia's excessive TGA "system" that
IADSA is doing the diametric opposite of what they PRETEND to be doing
("protecting" the industry.)
When will people EVER learn ???? FDA will be coming out with illegal GMP
regs this summer which violate DSHEA which only mandates them to come out
with food based GMPs. FDA's new regs are even more stringent than
pharmaceutical GMPs, and FDA will attempt to justify ignoring the law based
on this TGA recall. Senator Durbin will attempt to use the TGA recall to get
cosponsors for S.722, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003, and when
Waxman drafts a companion bill he'll also try variations of New Zealand
Health Minister King's lies in an effort to urge Congress to gut DSHEA by
passing S.722.
These attacks aren't happening in a vacuum. The world's FDA's and
legislators world wide are being coordinated via ICDRA International
Conference of Drug Regulating Authorities, a UN umbrella group attempting to
bring about global harmonization of the laws on behalf of pharmaceutical
interests.
The most effective thing vitamin consumers and manufacturers can do in the
face of this global attack on the natural products industry is to make an
immediate contribution to the Alliance for Natural Health's lawsuit to
overturn the EU Food Supplements Directive. See my article at
http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html and make a donation via
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org Overturning the FSD and continued
lobbying in the EU Parliament against the Traditional Herbal Medicines
Directive and to amend the Pharmaceuticals Directive is the best way to
monkeywrench the Cartel's dictatorial global takeover plan. We must get the
rest of the world to harmonize to DSHEA. IADSA sure as hell isn't trying to
bring about this outcome, they're pretending to, while Dennin is actually
setting us up on behalf of Pfizer, his employer. His email address is
randy.dennin@pfizer.com See http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com for jpeg files
of solid evidence of IADSA's agenda in the form of original correspondence
to and from IADSA and NNFA New Zealand.
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published in The Independent- Largest Business Newspaper in New Zealand
Natural justice?
by Ron Law, New Zealand
Deficiencies in the Australian regulatory system will likely cost the
Aussie/NZ natural healthcare product industry $300-$500 million, writes Ron
Law
The largest regulatory failure of foods or medicines in the history of the
planet happened in the self-proclaimed best-regulated country in the world
Australia.
Blessed with watchdog the Therapeutic Goods Agency (TGA), extracting $NZ60
million from the pharmaceutical and natural healthcare product industries,
Australians probably thought they had a guarantee against the shoddy
practices behind this months extraordinary recalls of products manufactured
by Pan Pharmaceuticals.
The New Zealand dietary supplements industry of which some players had been
clients of the now-suspended Pan has come under grossly unfair and
evidentially unwarranted attacks in the wake of the Aussie debacle.
A recent statement by Health Minister Annette King that the New Zealand
industry does not want regulation is patently false.
Papers will today be tabled at Parliaments Health Select Committee inquiry
into the proposed trans-Tasman joint TGA proving that not only does industry
want appropriate regulation, it is fully united and had agreement with the
Health Ministry on a proposed Healthcare and Therapeutic Products Bill in
November 1998.
The papers will show the minister was, on taking office, advised of the
proposed Bill and gave it her blessing, not realising her officials had
already scuttled it via a secret letter by former minister Wyatt Creech to
his counterpart in Australia in July 1999.
The case for New Zealand to join Australia in health product regulation is
demolished by the TGAs recent extraordinary responses to the apparently
errant Pan:
" December 2002-January 2003: Serious adverse reaction reports pour in to
the TGA relating to a pharmaceutical product Travacalm Original.
(Eventually, nearly 100 serious adverse reactions including 19 admissions to
hospital will be reported.)
" 21 January 2003: Based on adverse reaction reports, TGA initiates a
voluntary recall of Travacalm Original, a product containing dimenhydrinate
50mg, hyoscine hydrobromide 0.2mg and caffeine 20mg.
Over the next week TGA tests the other two Travacalm products. Travacalm
H.O. (which contains hyoscine hydrobromide 0.3mg) is found to contain
between 0% and 700% of the active ingredient in tablets within a single
packet, indicating that the formula was not mixed properly prior to
tabletising.
The third Travacalm product, Travacalm Natural, which contains 500mg of
ginger, was assayed and found to be OK and not required to be withdrawn.
" 30 January 2003: TGA initiates voluntary recall of Travacalm HO.
All three Travacalm products were contract-manufactured by Pan
Pharmaceuticals.
Then, for mysterious reasons, which we can only speculate about at present,
three months later,
" 28 April 2003: shortly before close of business, and without any warning,
the TGA holds a media conference to announce Pan Pharmaceutical product
would be recalled, including export-only products, and many thousands of
products made by Pan for other companies were under suspicion. TGA made the
calculated statement that, consumers should stop taking ALL complementary
medicines. As it turned out, less than 10% of products on the TGA database
were eventually withdrawn, and perhaps less than 5% of New Zealand product
was implicated.
Having thus placed all natural healthcare products under suspicion, whether
made by Pan or not, the medical head of the TGA, bizarrely, reassured the
public that pharmaceutical products were kosher.
However, the two products which had failed the TGAs laboratory analysis were
pharmaceutical products. The natural healthcare product had been found to be
of high quality.
What about the prescription medicines for export that had their licenses
revoked were they faulty? How could it be that pharmaceutical products paid
for by the Australian government were high quality, yet the same products
being exported were not?
The TGA had discovered serious quality and safety breaches in the
manufacture of products by that company [Pan Pharmaceuticals] since May 1,
2002,to quote the Honourable Annette King, New Zealand Minister of Food
Safety as she issued the largest recall of food products in the world.
Kings recall came less than 24 hours after she publicly stated she couldn't
recall these products because they were unregulated and that is why she
needed new regulation.
MPs Lynda Scott and Sue Kedgley pointed out in Parliament question time on 1
May that s40 of the Food Act gave her such powers and the minister
backtracked.
The recall in New Zealand was mandatory. The minister had no evidence any of
the natural healthcare products recalled were unsound or unfit for human
consumption or damaged or deteriorated or perished, or contaminated with any
poisonous, deleterious, or injurious substance,the only basis s40 provides
for a mandatory recall.
Kings only evidence was Australian TGA hearsay (it wont release evidence in
case it decides to prosecute).
Our minister would appear to have acted illegally and this may well be
considered by Parliaments Regulations Review Select Committee as an unusual
or unexpected use of powers in the Act.
But back to the TGA. Having discovered a major public health problem with
pharmaceutical products in January, during February, March and April all it
did to protect the public from patently unsafe pharmaceutical products was:
" It cancelled Pan Pharmaceuticals license to manufacture microdose
medicines including prescription medicines and products such as
over-the-counter pharmaceutical folic acid medicines without telling the
public or recalling the relevant medicines. The TGA did not appear to care
that many women rely on high-dose pharmaceutical folic acid medicines to
protect their babies from severe deformities.
" Having established there were major quality assurance problems with at
least two pharmaceutical products, it tested every pharmaceutical product
made by Pan.
" According to inside sources, the TGA decided against testing the natural
healthcare products because that would cost too much. (So much for the
natural healthcare industry's paid-up fees.)
Much media comment had suggested New Zealand needed a system such as
Australia's to ensure this sort of disaster didn't happen and that products
were easily traced and recalled.
We were told New Zealand needed Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and a
register of products. Yet nearly all the New Zealand companies involved in
this Australian scam already operate under GMP (voluntarily). They all have
proper recall procedures in place.
And, even with the most burdensome regulatory system in the world, requiring
GMP and consisting of a government-controlled central register of products
and regular audits, Australia could not guarantee quality.
The TGA had audited Pan Pharmaceuticals and given it the big tick. Companies
had contracted Pan because the regulator gave them the big tick.
Why did it take the TGA a week to come up with a full list of products? New
Zealand, with its so-called unregulated industry under the New Zealand Food
Safety Authority was only ever half a working day behind Australia in
recalling products.
This sorry saga demolishes the argument that New Zealand needs a regulatory
system such as Australia's to facilitate recalls. In catastrophic situations
such as, this no amount of planning or regulation can work. Not when the
regulator ambushes an industry sector with zero warning and sends the media
and medico-centric politicians into a feeding frenzy preventing industry
responding in a measured way.
The TGA has failed society and industry miserably. The TGA system was not
even capable of differentiating pharmaceutical and natural healthcare
products and could not differentiate registered (Aust-R high risk) and
listed (Aust-L low risk) products.
The TGA had to resort to a manual, paper-based system to identify product.
Every supplier had to provide via email or fax a separate document relating
details of every product affected.
Many Australian companies which used Pan will be driven out of business.
They cannot quickly bring to market a product from another manufacturer:
regulatory approval will take a minimum of six weeks for a listed product
and six months for a registered one. Each entry will cost in the region of
$500 plus an equivalent consultant fee and many companies have 300-500
products.
The natural healthcare product industry pays the TGA $6 million in
protection money per year, money supposedly to help guarantee the
credibility of the therapeutic goods industry. Why did the TGA protect the
interests of the pharmaceutical industry and not afford the natural
healthcare product industry the courtesy of a phone call?
There is no evidence to show the TGA has analysed a single natural
healthcare product involved in this recall and found it wanting. There was
no evidence of adverse reactions to natural products. Recalling things like
charcoal tablets and vitamin C tablets and suggesting that they are unsafe
is absurd in the extreme.
For a problem that surfaced as a result of serious adverse reactions to
pharmaceutical medicines, it is a mystery that the Australian regulators
have turned that around to hammer innocent parties.
If the TGA had planned to inflict severe wounds on innocent parties it could
not have planned it better.
The negative impact on the natural healthcare product industry in Australia
and New Zealand is likely to be $300 million-$500 million a figure orders of
magnitude more than the maximum fine a court can impose on a guilty party.
It is staggering the TGA has exercised unbridled power without notice,
without affording the right to consult a lawyer, without a formal charge, a
trial, right of defense or right of appeal.
Not just the alleged sinner, but an industry that is an innocent bystander
is punished because it used a manufacturer approved by the regulator itself.
Even those industry players who could be regarded as friends of the TGA have
opposed the notion that it dominate the proposed trans-Tasman joint
regulatory agency the government and health officials are seeking. Large
companies such as Blackmores, Mayne, Healtheries and Nutralife variously
described TGA as restrictive, oppressive, overly prescriptive, inflexible,
lacking transparency, burdensome, overly-bureaucratic, costly, excessive,
and cumbersome in their submissions to New Zealand's Health Select
Committee.
Few within the natural healthcare industry would disagree with the above
adjectives. To this list could be added vindictive, uncontrolled, vile,
despicable and even corporate terrorist.
The Australian system was supposed to guarantee the quality of product but
has failed to do so. It seems that the only thing that the Australian TGA
system protects Australian citizens from is the good quality imports that we
enjoy in New Zealand.
Now is the time to establish an independent commission of inquiry into the
wider issue of regulation of health. This would expose how the natural
healthcare industry remains in bondage to regulators with motives not driven
by good regulatory practice.
Industry should now pool resources, employ the best team of litigation
lawyers it can find, initiate a war on corporate terrorism and run the
Australian TGA out of town.
Compared with its style of democracy, totalitarianism is a cakewalk.
Ron Law, a former biochemist, advises natural healthcare product
associations on industry issues and lectures in business management. He was
appointed by the Director General of Health to the Sentinel Event Project
working group that advised the Ministry of Health on the reporting and
management of medical injury in the public health system.
_________________________________________________________

Pan Pharmaceuticals statement
ASX announcement
Statement made to the media by Colin Henson, April 30, 2003
http://www.panpharma.com.au/html/announcements/attach/PPH%20030430%20Stateme
nt%20by%20Colin%20Henson.pdf
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. My name is Colin Henson. I am a
non-executive director of Pan and chairman of the Audit Committee and I've
been asked to speak to you today in relation to the current situation.Mr Jim
Selim is the Managing Director of Pan and is currently working with our
trade partners on facilitating the TGA recall and developing the recovery
plan for Pan Pharmaceuticals.
Our chairman and another director are in Canberra meeting with the TGA this
afternoon. There are a few key points that I want to make:
The recall
Pan was surprised by the speed of the TGA's actions, which have caused
difficulties for our wholesalers, customers, retailers and consumers.We need
to bear in mind that Pan does not market branded products. We manufacture
for wholesalers, under contract, who brand the product as their own.
Under TGA rules, there are two separate recall processes.
Firstly, Pan has been asked to recall 219 products previously test marketed
as Pan's branded products. To Pan's knowledge, none of these products remain
on retail shelves and as far as I'm aware, they are not actively
marketed.Secondly, the TGA has requested the wholesalers who market branded
products to recall products identified by the TGA.
Pan is currently developing its plan to handle recalled goods and to support
wholesaler reclal processes. Pan is doing everything it can to facilitate
this process. And I must say, ladies and gentlemen, that Pan stands behind
its products and its customers to the extreme.
Customer Safety
From a consumers' perspective, it is important to note that no specific
health risk had been identified by the TGA with the recalled products.The
TGA has identified issues with Pan's manufacturing processes but the company
is confident that there is no threat to human health from these products.
And it is worth noting that apart from the Travacalm product the TGA has not
identified any specific incidents.Any mention of allergic reactions and
other possible health risks are pure speculation and please note both the
Parliamentary Secretary and the TGA talk about 'could', rather than 'have',
caused health problems.The product Travacalm which the TGA had identified as
causing problems for some consumers, had been dealt with previously in a
recall in February 2003.
The current recall predominately affects products listed as AUST L, or low
risk products, with the TGA.
Pan and its predecessors have been a manufacturer of complementary medicines
for 29 years. Prior to the latest audit, the company's manufacturing
processes have been regularly audited by the TGA and have consistently been
found to meet TGA standards.The cause of the problem
The TGA has identified a number of issues with Pan's quality control
procedures. Some of these are a result of human error, others may be the
result of quality system breakdown.One staff member has been dismissed as a
result of the Travacalm incident and another senior staff member is
assisting the company with its investigations.
The TGA report is substantial, Pan is working through each of the issues
raised by the TGA and I should add there, that the reason why we are
standing here today rather than yesterday or the day before to speak to you
in relation to this matter is because of the volume of information provided
to us by the TGA on Monday afternoon which requires a careful review and
verification.
The future of Pan
Pan will be presenting a plan to the TGA to address the issues identified in
its audit and demonstrate how quality assured manufacturing can recommence
at the earliest possible opportunity.
The TGA has advised Pan that satisfaction of TGA requirements could lead to
the suspension being lifted at any time.
We are doing our best to hold onto our staff. Casual staff have been asked
to take leave but our permanent staff are busy working on the recovery plan.
And once again, as I've said in other places that Pan is conscious of the
loyalty that the staff have given to the company over many, many years and
the assurance to the staff is that that loyalty will be reciprocated.Ladies
and gentlemen I'll close there with one final statement and that is that the
Board and senior management believe that there is a future for Pan.

Thankyou.

Carole
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