It has happened. President Jacob Zuma has signed the Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill 6 of 2014 into law in terms of section 84(2) of the Constitution.
This new Act creates a new legal framework for the Medicines Control Council (MCC) to be scrapped, and for the establishment of a new South African Health Products [sic] Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA), similar to the FDA in the USA. The SAHPRA will no longer be an organ of State, but a self-funded, autonomous, semi-private entity at an arms length from our legislature.
The controversial definition of ‘Complementary Medicine’ (enabling clause) was dropped from the text of the Bill under the instruction of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Health during the passage of the Bill through the law-making process. Hence complementary and alternative products (and African Traditional Medicines) are not defined in the framework of new Act.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa
The SAHPRA will be capacitated with full-time employees and drug registration assessors from fees derived from drug applications and industry licensing fees. Many pharmacy graduates, once trained for SAHPRA, will be dispatched to drug regulators in neighboring countries. It is envisaged that the SAHPRA will absorb over 250 specially trained regulatory pharmacists over the next five-ten years, with seed money pledged by the EU Commission, SwissMedic and the Bill & Malinda Gates Foundation.
The SAHPRA will also become a springboard for the Pan-African ‘Model Law for Pharmaceuticals’, a harmonized regulatory regime hatched last year by the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) Program, implemented as part of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa (PMPA). This Model Law is being supported and funded by the UN, NEPAD Agency, African Union Commission, Pan African Parliament, World Health Organization, World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Government.
International Consortium of Medicines Regulatory Authorities
Three years ago the MCC also joined a larger international regulatory harmonization cabal, namely the International Consortium of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA). This US FDA initiated consortium has met twice a year for the last three years, and comprises regulator heads from most drug-producing and high drug consuming countries. The ICMRA is a non-transparent, and unaccountable body where regulatory authorities around the world share strategic leadership to expand global regulatory reach (ie open more markets for pharmaceutical drugs). Among it’s stated goals is the vision to create a singular regulatory regime (regulatory convergence) for all medicinal products for human use (pharmaceuticals, biologics, genetic therapies, radiopharmaceuticals and “grey zone” Traditional & Natural Health products. The MCC (soon to be SAHPRA) presides on the ICMRA Management Committee.
The TNHA have confirmed recently that Health Canada, who currently chair the ICMRA, are keen to export key aspects of their restrictive Natural Health Products regulations, which eliminated up to 20,000 natural health products in Canada over the last eight years. South Africa and the UK are allegedly earmarked to be the first dominoes to fall in the roll-out of this ICMRA approved harmonization scheme for CAMS in the future.
Ground zero for African drug regulatory harmonisation
There is no doubt that South Africa is currently ground zero for African drug regulatory harmonization, and solidly embedded in international harmonization schemes which will expand BigPharma markets into developing regions and will attempt to restrict non-drug health product choices.
The passing of Bill 6 into law will undoubtedly unlock readily available resources from deep pockets to rapidly advance this agenda. One thing is for certain going forward. Most, if not all of our domestic medicine regulatory laws will no longer be drafted at home by our own publicly elected representatives in South Africa. The AU Commission and non-elected bodies like ICMRA will be calling the tune, and getting redress will be significantly more challenging.
By Anthony Rees, Traditional and Natural Health Alliance
From all I’ve read about this on all sources, the upshot is: Any product claiming to treat an ailment must have evidence from peer reviewed clinical trials proving that it is better at treating said ailment than a similarly administered placebo.
I can see how some snake oil salesmen would be anti this, but it is better for the consumer.
The problem with regulating natural products in the same way as drugs is that the former cannot be patented and therefore the companies don’t have the ability to do large trials. Nevertheless the experience of practitioners over long periods of time and the accumulated information is regarded by Integrative practitioners as sufficiently worthy and useful in deciding how and when to use these products. Keep in mind that many herbs have been used for hundred of years while drugs have been used in general for a much shorter time. In that short time many , many drugs have been removed from the market because of increasing side effects as experienced by doctors. Few herbs have been removed because their safety has been satisfied over time and their efficacy is the experience of practitioners who are not snake oil doctors.
This will mean good bye to all the Traditional African Medicine men.
This is completely unacceptable! I think all alternative health practitioners should give them the finger and operate under the table. I would still buy from. I refuse to bow down to Big Pharma!
So you bow down to big alternative instead?
To quote Tim Minchin: “You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been shown to work? Medicine.”
This is the start of a slippery slope. The aim of big-pharma is not to make you better, but to feed you drugs.
Big alternative wants the same then.
vested interests…
So who is this big alternative you refer to Dan. What is your Agenda then – where do you stand. Easy to make comments – come with alternate solutions.
Oh what a fool
Gee, requiring health practitioners to provide proof that their “treatments” actually work, how draconian. Should any one, regardless of qualification , be allowed to make claims of “miracle cures”, with out providing adequate evidence of efficacy?
So right Richard. After all, chemotherapy almost always fails in the end. Should it be allowed?
This is actually a very good development. The damage witch doctors have done in the AIDS epidemic in SA is appalling. Zuma is still a borderline psychopath running SA into the ground as fast as he can.
Who stands to gain from depriving our indegenous practitioners of their right?
Big Pharma are the agents of the Nazi nwo globalist mass murderers.
Sounds like the beginning of the “new world order” We’ll be chipped soon and if you don’t, straight to jail. The problem is, nobody wants to go backwards….
Vit B17 The Apricot Kernel.
The B17 molecule contains two units of glucose, one of benzaldehyde, and one of cyanide,all tightly locked together within it. Cyanide can be highly toxic and even fatal if taken in sufficient quantity. However locked as it is in this natural state, it is completely inert chemically and has absolutely no effect on living tissue. – analogous with NaCl -.
There is only one substance that can unlock the B17 molecule and release the cyanide. That substance is an enzyme called beta – glucosidase, which we call the “unlocking enzyme”. When B17 comes in contact with this enzyme in the presence of H2O, not only is the cyanide released, but also the benzaldehyde, which is highly toxic by itself. In fact, these two working together are at least a hundred times more poisonous than either of them separately; a phenomenon known in biochemistry as synergism,
Fortunately the unlocking enzyme is not found to any dangerous degree anywhere in the body except at the cancer cell, where it always is present in great quantity, sometimes at great levels in excess of 100X that of the surrounding normal cells. The result is that Vit. B17 is unlocked at the cancer cell, releases its poisons to the cancer cell, and only to the cancer cell.
There is another important enzyme called rhodanase – thiosulfate transfurase – which we call the “protecting enzyme”. The reason is that it has the ability to neutralise cyanide by converting it instantly into by – products that actually are beneficial and essential to health. This enzyme is found in great quantities in every part of the body except the cancer cell, which consequently is not protected.
The unlocking enzyme is found in healthy cells, however the protecting enzyme is there in greater quantity, this excess completely neutralises the effect of the unlocking enzyme.
The enzyme responsible for the unlocking action on the synthesized B17is beta glucuronidase.Take it with MSM and you have a complete cure of all cancers.
Mechanisms of action of B17 by Charles Gurchot.
FDA We do not forget. We do not forgive. You can expect us.
You will now try to ban apricots, which you evil money and power worshipping devils from hell might try.
Who was Zuma bribed by to start interfering in the health of the people in a negative way.
Drugs are dangerous whether pushed or prescribed. Big Pharma is killing us. The acronym AIDS in my mind means Allopathic Medicine
is Destroying South Africa. South Africa is firmly in the grip of the Illuminati and courtesey of their puppet government will have their way which is genocide of the blacks. AZT is poison and causes AIDS. My book ‘The Crime of Curing’ puts this whole sick scenario into perspective.A sad day indeed for this once beautiful country.
Why do our health shops have thousands of products, promising everything under the sun. When coconut oil is actually the cure all and it is not even a drug. The Americans deamonised coconut oil after the second WW as it was much cheaper to make vegetable oil from sunflowers, canola etc etc. India used coconut oil as a cure all thousands of years ago!
Every country afflicted with this regulatory cancer can take it as their duty to defeat it by sheer, brazen disobedience coupled to an energetic initiative to produce whatever non-medicine they wish to make for profit and sell it in the face of an indolent, insolent, arrogant bureaucracy. What? Are you going to be arrested for possession of a condiment? “When you don’t have a free market, you get a black market”. (These are the words of Ludwig von Mises – a smarter mind by far, than these fools out trying to do things ‘for your safety’) They are lining their pockets. Plain and simple.
yes this is how n person of very little knowledge get to sine for our so call well been but mess around do what u know build houses create jobs take the people that live like dogs in shacks that voted bring in line with life instead od giving 51 % share to your anc buddy
Anyone who believes that the pharaceutical mafia have your interests at heart is living in dreamland, they are all about the money, It is not in their interests to keep you healthy , rather to have you on a coctail of pills that will keep you trapped for life . this is a slippery slope,similar to the GMO and vaccination fiasco . its all about controlling the world population. For goodness sake ,wake up ,Milliions are killed by the pharmacetical industry every year and this is another step to protect them and deny you access to herbal remedies that actually cure
What the hell is this man thinking………
Me and a friend of mine. Got some concoction from a pharmacy in jhb. To stop his limf cancer that is coming back. Wrote did our studies and we went for it we cured him. He is running 3 years now not even seeing a doctor. Are we both allowed to this now. I’m sure a rebrand can actually keep us selling out
Road herbs.
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