Draconian nz natural health and supplementary products bill

[Serpo]

Nov. 26


1 (http://uncensored.co.nz/2014/11/26/draconian-nz-natural-health-and-supplementary-products-bill/#)
http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/regulation-health-and-disability-system/natural-health-and-supplementary-products

I’ve closely read this Draft Bill this morning and it is much worse than I ever could have imagined! It is nothing less than a rubber stamp for corrupt, multinational drug companies in collusion with WHO and our own Government to highly regulate, register and licence all natural products (over 5,500 I’ve been told are on the Draft List already – which I can’t find in this Draft Bill here – that is a huge number of products) and effectively ban private people from using or promoting all natural products unless big pharma corporates or their agents have tested and approved them. This will particularly apply to any natural products that are claimed to promote health, prevent or cure disease that compete with their own products and will turn all natural health product producers, distributors, users and advocates into common criminals. This horrendous Bill is currently going through its Third Reading in the NZ Parliament, and it looks like it will be introduced early in the New Year in 2015. Of course, it is part of a similar legislative regime of tyranny happening all round the world at present promoted by the global multinational drug and pharmaceutical mafia, but it doesn’t excuse us here in New Zealand to apathetically just sit back and allow such tyrannical and oppressive legislation to pass.



If you click on the above link, then click on the ‘The Natural Health and Supplementary Bill’ and the go to the Bill itself, to appreciate what incredibly, draconian, all-encompassing fascist tyranny they propose. Go to sub-section, 40C Offence to publish certain advertisements relating to natural health and supplementary products.


Here you will read, to my mind, the greatest abomination I have ever read. (Bear in mind that many of these products to which these contemptible psychopaths refer are in fact,common natural foods, herbs, vitamins and minerals etc. which mankind has freely used or eaten for thousands of years! And now they want to licence, register and own the rights to them!


Do read the whole sub-section to get the full picture of what really, is indescribable greed and wickedness. Here is a quick extract:



Sub-section 40C (1) “A person must not publish or cause to be published (either on that person’s own account or as the agent or employee of the person seeking to promote the sale) any advertisement that-


a) directly or by implication states or suggests that a natural health and supplementary product for sale in New Zealand may be administered by- 1) injection or parental infusion; or 2) application to the eye;


b) includes any health benefit claim that directly or by implication states or suggests that a natural health and supplementary product for sale in New Zealand is able to treat or can assist in the treatment of a named condition.


(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding- a) $250,000, in the case of a body corporate; b) $50,000, in the case of an individual


(4) In subsection (1), -


advertisement means any words, whether written, printed or spoken, and any pictorial representation or design, used or appearing to be used to promote the sale of any natural health and supplementary product and includes any trade circular, any label, and any advertisement in a trade journal


publish means-


a) insert in any newspaper or other periodical publication printed or published in New Zealand; or


b) send to any person by post or otherwise; or


c) deliver to any person or leave upon premises occupied by any person; or


d) broadcast within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1989; or


e) bring to the notice of the public in New Zealand in any other manner.”



This friends, is only a small part of the Bill. At least in my view, it is the most tyrannical, far-reaching, draconian, dictatorial and contemptible legislation ever to be introduced in our county’s history. The terminology itself, because it is so wide and all-encompassing,(for example, the phrase, “bring to the notice of the public in any other manner”) brings in other Acts and penalties as well, for example, the New Zealand Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1977. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1977/0037/latest/whole.html?p=1#DLM55991


It’s not generally an issue I have had a lot to do with myself, and I admit I’m certainly not an expert on the general subject of health supplements at all. However, based on this draft legislation in hand, and it looks like it is going to be passed before Parliament winds up for the Parliamentary Christmas recess. All I can say is, God help us all!


What an utter disgrace that there has hardly been a murmur from the general public! Of course the media have largely been to blame too, as they have been very quite about it as well, not surprising, as they generally are owned by the same global banks that control the drug companies.


I mean, really though, what an utter shocker, that these impertinent, money-hungry, pharmaceutical and medical corporate charlatans (with their subservient bureaucratic puppets drafting this destructive legislation) even have the cheek and gall to tell us ordinary, law-abiding, thinking citizens that now the best ingredients in the very food we all eat, most of which have been commonly promoted for good health for thousands of years, now have to be officially registered, licenced or banned by an increasingly totalitarian State, in collusion with a powerful gang of fascist UN agencies and global multi-national corporate pirates, and if we don’t all comply, we soon will be prosecuted as common criminals and liars. What an utter disgrace that almost the entire nation is just sitting back and putting up with this nonsense.


To my mind, if I can’t freely and openly express my personal opinion to others, make a statement or recommend, for example, to my friend next door, that Vitamin C will help cure his common flu or whatever, without any dictatorial government approval, licence, regulation or fear of criminal prosecution – I am no longer living in a free and open democracy – I am now living in a revived Nazi Germany.


That is all.


Regards.

J.


http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/regulation-health-and-disability-system/natural-health-and-supplementary-products

[Serpo]

Pharmaceutical Corporations and Medical ResearchAuthor and Page information

by Anup Shah
This Page Last Updated Saturday, October 02, 2010 (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#)



This page: http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research.
To print all information e.g. expanded side notes, shows alternative links, use the print version:

http://www.globalissues.org/print/article/52



Pharmaceutical companies have contributed to people’s improved health and prolonged life, generally speaking. Research and development of drugs that are brought to market can be costly and there are strict regulations and requirements that companies must follow in most countries. But the details reveal further concerns.
For example, marketing practices and priorities of the pharmaceutical industry have come under scrutiny for many years. It seems that there is increasing emphasis on drugs that fit scare-mongering and over-medicalized problems.
Testing and thorough clinical trials are fundamental to good medical drugs, but there are numerous accusations of shortcuts, including pressuring for favorable results, testing on people without their proper approval, using drugs for unapproved uses and much more.
Ideologically, many drug companies support the position of less government involvement, yet in the developing world in particular, diseases and illnesses affect the poorest the most who cannot afford expensive (or even sometimes cheap) treatments. In the past decade or so, pharmaceutical companies have therefore also been criticized for ignoring this “market” because they can’t pay.

[M]any people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases.… Malaria, tuberculosis, acute lower-respiratory infections—in 1998, these claimed 6.1 million lives. People died because the drugs to treat those illnesses are nonexistent or are no longer effective. They died because it doesn’t pay to keep them alive.
— Ken Silverstein, Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor (http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19990719&s=silverstein), The Nation, July 19, 1999

Public announcements of drug donations to poor countries are often welcome, but sometimes the details reveal murkier intentions; some of the drugs are close to, or even past, their expiry date (and are expensive to dispose, adding more costs to recipient countries) for example.
Poorer countries encourage their drug companies to make cheaper generic alternatives to expensive branded ones or use other tools available at their disposal to help bring the price of medicines down to more affordable levels. But they face immense pressure from international institutions and multinational pharmaceutical corporations, even when generics and other options pursued are legitimate under international rules. For these multinationals, they’ve poured billions into some of these drugs and therefore want a patent system that will protect their investments for as long as possible.
For the developing and poorer countries, as remote as these issues may seem, patents and intellectual property rights issues can mean life or death. (For example, at the end of the 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry lobbied the US government to threaten sanctions on South Africa for trying to produce generic drugs to fight its growing AIDS problem. It took huge public outcry to get the case dropped some 2 years later.)

The establishment of the World Trade Organization … imposed US style intellectual property rights around the world. These rights were intended to reduce access to generic medicines and they succeeded.
Developing countries paid a high price for this agreement. But what have they received in return? Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns. The chief executive of Novartis, a drug company with a history of social responsibility, said “We have no model which would [meet] the need for new drugs in a sustainable way … You can’t expect for-profit organizations to do this on a large scale.”
— Joseph Stiglitz (former World Bank Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner for economics), Scrooge and intellectual property rights (http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1279), British Medical Journal, December 23, 2006, Volume 333, pp. 1279-1280

These and many other issues are discussed further below.
This web page has the following sub-sections:


Priorities of the Pharmaceutical Industry (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#PrioritiesofthePharmaceuticalIndustry)
But why should the Pharmaceutical Industry care about the problems of Developing Countries? (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#ButwhyshouldthePharmaceuticalIndustrycare abouttheproblemsofDevelopingCountries)
Hiding behind patents to prevent legitimate — and cheaper — generic use (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Hidingbehindpatentstopreventlegitimateand cheapergenericuse)
Dumping old or unsuitable drugs onto poor countries as aid and charity (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Dumpingoldorunsuitabledrugsontopoorcountr iesasaidandcharity)
Testing drugs on the poor (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Testingdrugsonthepoor)
Power and influence in drug testing (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Powerandinfluenceindrugtesting)

Testing on humans without permission (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Testingonhumanswithoutpermission)
Voluntary human trials where doctors are pressured not to reveal problems (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Voluntaryhumantrialswheredoctorsarepressu rednottorevealproblems)
Successful human trials, but drugs priced beyond the reach of many patients (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Successfulhumantrialsbutdrugspricedbeyond thereachofmanypatients)
Killer prices and breaking the law to save lives (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Killerpricesandbreakingthelawtosavelives)


Distorting drug trials to highlight positive outcomes (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Distortingdrugtrialstohighlightpositiveou tcomes)
Pricing (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Pricing)
Paying hefty fines for unapproved drug use as part of profit strategy (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Payingheftyfinesforunapproveddruguseaspar tofprofitstrategy)
Its all in the genes, stupid! (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Itsallinthegenesstupid)
More information (http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research#Moreinformation)

http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research

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In this symposium of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 16 authors investigate the corruption of pharmaceutical policy, each taking a different look at the sources of corruption, how it occurs and what is corrupted. This introductory essay summarizes each article, discusses the key theme that run through the articles, and provides SSRN web links to access each of the 16 articles. The articles are organized into five topics: (1) systemic problems, (2) medical research, (3) medical knowledge and practice, (4) marketing, and (5) patient advocacy organizations.

Today, the goals of pharmaceutical policy and medical practice are often undermined due to institutional corruption — that is, widespread or systemic practices, usually legal, that undermine an institution’s objectives or integrity. We will see that the pharmaceutical industry’s own purposes are often undermined. In addition, pharmaceutical industry funding of election campaigns and lobbying skews the legislative process that sets pharmaceutical policy. Moreover, certain practices have corrupted medical research, the production of medical knowledge, the practice of medicine, drug safety, and the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of pharmaceutical marketing. As a result, practitioners may think they are using reliable information to engage in sound medical practice while actually relying on misleading information and therefore prescribe drugs that are unnecessary or harmful to patients, or more costly than equivalent medications. At the same time, patients and the public may believe that patient advocacy organizations effectively represent their interests while these organizations actually neglect their interests.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2298140


Over the past 35 years, patients have suffered from a largely hidden epidemic of side effects from drugs that usually have few offsetting benefits. The pharmaceutical industry has corrupted the practice of medicine through its influence over what drugs are developed, how they are tested, and how medical knowledge is created. Since 1906, heavy commercial influence has compromised Congressional legislation to protect the public from unsafe drugs. The authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into the FDA’s prime clients, deepening the regulatory and cultural capture of the agency. Industry has demanded shorter average review times and, with less time to thoroughly review evidence, increased hospitalizations and deaths have resulted. Meeting the needs of the drug companies has taken priority over meeting the needs of patients. Unless this corruption of regulatory intent is reversed, the situation will continue to deteriorate. We offer practical suggestions including: separating the funding of clinical trials from their conduct, analysis, and publication: independent FDA leadership; full public funding for all FDA activities; measures to discourage R&D on drugs with few if any new clinical benefits; and the creation of a National Drug Safety Board.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2282014

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My avatar applies, again...


Preventive Nutrition in Nazi Germany: A Public Health Commentary

http://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe/vol9/iss1/10

Hitler administration Organic Whole Grain food stamp:

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Poster:

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Rudolf Heß was the chief proponent of holistic/naturalistic methods for maintaining health, and his proposals had full approval of the government, unlike in all modern "democracies." Through Heß, Rudolf Steiner's Biodynamic wisdom was given state-sponsorship. Still-existing (and popular) brand Weleda benefited greatly.

[Twisted Titan]

They will just push it under ground

Like all things good for you.