"Not Vaccines or Alternative to Vaccines"

[Gord_in_Toronto]

It's a start:

Nosode homeopathic labels must read 'not vaccines or alternatives to vaccines:' Health Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/nosod...ernatives-to-vaccines-health-canada-1.3176008

Homeopathic products promoted to parents will need to be clear they are not vaccines or alternatives to vaccines, Health Canada says.

The department announced Friday it is introducing label changes for certain homeopathic products.

Nosodes are ultradiluted forms of diseased tissue, pus, blood, or excretions from a sick person or animal that some homeopaths and naturopaths sell, often in a pellet form.

The new statement for nosode products is required to be: "This product is neither a vaccine nor an alternative to vaccination. This product has not been proven to prevent infection. Health Canada does not recommend its use in children and advises that your child receive all routine vaccinations."

Health Canada said it will also no longer allow companies to make specific health claims on homeopathic products for cough, cold, and flu for children 12 and under, unless those claims are supported by scientific evidence.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I agree, it's a start. But why can you lie to teen and adult consumers?

I saw a Doc Zone recently showing there was some Canadian Pharmacy stamp of approval (can't recall the official agency name) that was misleading consumers because it was meaningless but because it was government, the consumers believed it meant an actual endorsement.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I agree, it's a start. But why can you lie to teen and adult consumers?

I saw a Doc Zone recently showing there was some Canadian Pharmacy stamp of approval (can't recall the official agency name) that was misleading consumers because it was meaningless but because it was government, the consumers believed it meant an actual endorsement.

Yup. That's our "friends" at Health Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/healt...natural-remedies-a-joke-doctor-says-1.2992414

Pharmaceutical drugs require years of clinical research before they are approved for sale. But Health Canada allows natural health product manufacturers to make similar health claims based on traditional medicine or homeopathic use, instead of scientific evidence.

Licensed natural products have an eight-digit Natural Product Number (NPN) or Homeopathic Medicine Number (DIN-HM) on the label, which may give consumers peace of mind knowing the product has been authorized and approved for sale.

Last year, Health Canada licensed almost 10,000 natural health products, including herbal remedies, traditional medicines and homeopathic products. Many natural products are sold in drugstores alongside pharmaceutical options.

The current action appears to be a change of policy. In part because of this CBC TV show Marketplace that, in the fall of 2014,

investigated homeopathic practitioners selling homeopathic nosodes as an alternative to conventional vaccines. The investigation found that some practitioners downplayed the dangers of disease, while saying that nosodes were 95 per cent effective against diseases including measles and whooping cough.

 

[Darwin123]

It's a start:

Nosode homeopathic labels must read 'not vaccines or alternatives to vaccines:' Health Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/nosod...ernatives-to-vaccines-health-canada-1.3176008

Thus, the Canadian government doesn't have to buy real medicine for superstitious old people. The old people don't contribute to the economy, anyway. However, it obviously wants to keep the younger people healthy.

What a great way to deal with the graying demographic! Sell the old people homeopathic remedies!

Homeopathy is far more pleasant then its alternative, 'death panels'.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

So it was Marketplace, not Doc Zone and it was Health Canada, not Canadian Pharmacy.

'Close' is good when your brain is aging.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

So it was Marketplace, not Doc Zone and it was Health Canada, not Canadian Pharmacy.

'Close' is good when your brain is aging.

I don't know how old your brain is but I had to do a Google or two to get the facts to put the "E" in ISF.

 

[jaydeehess]

So it was Marketplace, not Doc Zone and it was Health Canada, not Canadian Pharmacy.

'Close' is good when your brain is aging.

Is "16 X9" not worthy of adding to the confusion, or do you just not have access to a Global TV station?

( I work at a Global affiliate)

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I have no idea what you are on about. I watch CNBC on a regular basis. It's one of my cable stations. Marketplace and Doc Zone are both on CNBC.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I have no idea what you are on about. I watch CNBC on a regular basis. It's one of my cable stations. Marketplace and Doc Zone are both on CNBC.

He's just jerking your chain by not mentioning W5.

If you add in The Fifth Estate, I think we have covered all current Canadian news shows. Oops. Then there is The Passionate Eye.

 

[gerdbonk]

Canada has news?

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Canada has news?

When Michael Moore came to Toronto a couple of years ago to promote one of his movies he rhetorically asked his audience at the UoT, "What do you think of the fact that Canadians know more about the US than Americans know about Canada?" A voice in he audience shouted out, "Safe".

QED.

 

[jaydeehess]

I have no idea what you are on about. I watch CNBC on a regular basis. It's one of my cable stations. Marketplace and Doc Zone are both on CNBC.

Both produced, I understand, by the CBC, the Canadian govt owned and subsidized commercial tv network that is in direct competition with Global Tv & CTV networks which have to make do as privately owned entities.

 

[jaydeehess]

Canada has news?

In addition to the 24 hour CBC and CTV news channels , local, national and international news on Global, CTV, CBC and a smattering of independant networks and stations, I also get MSNBC, CNBC, FOX NEWS, and all the USA networks plus BBC on cabke and, at the cottage, on Satellite.

 

[catsmate]

On a related note, Catholic bishops in Kenya have urged citizens to boycott a mass polio vaccination campaign, unless the safety of the vaccine has been confirmed through scientific tests. Of course these are the same bishops that (last year) claimed that the tetanus vaccine was a birth control measure.

Link.