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"Protecting the Health and Safety of All Australians"
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This information is published here in the interests of Public Awareness
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In Australia the organ of Government charged with "Protecting the Health and Safety of All Australians" with respect to dietary and nutritional supplements, medicines and other aids to health is the Therapeutic Goods Administration, part of the federal Department of Health and Ageing.
In May 2003, this body came to the attention of most Australians when they issued a class-1 recall (reserved for likelihood consumption causing death) of all non-prescription products containing ingredients manufactured by Pan Pharmaceuticlas, Australia's largest producer on nutritional supplements.
Their pretext was "The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has suspended the licence held by Pan Pharmaceuticals Limited of Sydney to manufacture medicines, for a period of six months with effect 28 April 2003, because of serious concerns about the quality and safety of products manufactured by the company." (from TGA website).
The Australian media presented only one side of the story - here are 3 independent and informed articles by Eve Hillary and Joe Vialls which offer what we believe to be a much more accurate analysis of the recall, including TGA's motives and agenda:
And here is the official TGA website - a site which looks good on the surface but conveys little useful information or facts about how they are protecting our health and safety.
After reading those you may want to go further into the matter and familiarise yourself with the machinations of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a United Nations entity which is dictating global policy on food and dietary supplement and appears to be run exclusively by large, multinational pharmaceutical companies.
Under threat of economic sanctions this Commission is forcing an stealthy 8-step process of "legislative harmonisation" on all governments.
The unstated aim is to remove from the public domain all dietary and nutritional supplements from the public domain and to require everyone to consult a medical practitioner in order to obtain any product for health maintenance. As we already know this will mean, in the most part, only products which are manufactured by the multi-national pharmaceutical companies.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission's charter is to "protect consumer health and to facilitate fair trading practices in foods".
An afterword on the PAN Pharmaceutical Recall:
Pan hit with $17m TGA bill
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has given the company at the centre of Australia's largest ever drug recall a bill for more than $17 million.
Pan Pharmaceuticals went into voluntary administration last month after having its manufacturing licence suspended in April due to quality and safety breaches.
The TGA says the costs of advertising the recalled products alone totalled more than $11 million.
The bill also covers the price of establishing a public hotline, legal fees and ancillary costs.
The administration will now have to compete with Pan's other creditors to recover the money.
But it says it is likely to have priority.
Bureaucratic insanity?
In November 2002, TGA was recommending PAN as Australia's most highly recommended pharmaceutical manufacturer. 6 months later the same government body closes them down, along with who knows how many small health food stores around Australia, and then demands that PAN pay for their own assasination!
Now Canada and New Zealand authorities are doing their best to "harmonise" those countries drug regulations with Australia!
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