Nancy. It's 'half' true. About 2 years ago there was a massive recall of health food supplements and generic medicines. This was because the 'quality control' of a huge company called Pan Pharmaceuticals was found to be seriously lacking. Pan sold vitamins, minerals etc, under there own brand, plus they made and packaged tons of stuff for numerous other companies. They also made raw materials for other companies who did there own packaging. Alltogether I think they were involved in about 50% of the total health market and a lot of supermarket medicines too.
It was such a tangled and confusing mess that many chemists and health food stores simply took everything suspicious off the shelves 'til the suppliers got their act together. Ironically I dont think it was a health supplement that caused the recall. I think it was a poor quality headache tablets that were the problem. I think they found that some of the tablets contained almost no paracetamol, (but I'm not sure about that.) Naturally it made consumers of vitamins and minerals very wary of whether there was anything useful in the products they were paying through the nose for. So the story is partly true. The shelves were cleared , but it wasnt because of a general government crackdown on vitamins and minerals. I think things are pretty much back to normal now and the quality of vitamins and minerals is probably a lot more reliable. David Is there anyone on the list from Australia who can verify what we have heard about all of your supplements being taken off the shelves??? ??? And/or Noprway, same question....What supplements can you pruchase over the counter? Thanks, Nancy -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
