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No 3  - 19 June 2004
Greetings to all myHealth newsletter subscribers.

Many people have been asking recently where they can find out more information about the Government's proposal to establish an Australian based Trans Tasman body to control all pharmaceuticals and Natural Health Products in both countries and the issues around this proposal.

One of the leading opponents of the Trans Tasman scheme has been the New Zealand Health Trust which has also been instrumental in the creation of My Health as part of an alternative model of New Zealand based regulation.  The New Zealand Health Trust has now created on its own web site, www.nzhealthtrust.co.nz, a library of many of the documents involved in this battle.  Go to the web site, select documents and then select the document(s) you want to read.  They are pdf files and are sorted in date order. 

One of the archived documents is a synopsis of the proposed model for the sensible regulation of dietary supplements in NZ promoted by the NZHT (of which the myHealth product register is a part).

We encourage you to visit the NZ Health Trust site and read for yourself some of the damaging reports that highlight the devastating impact the Trans Tasman agency is forecast to have on the New Zealand Natural Health Product industry if it is allowed to proceed.  Also on that site you will find links to the report of Parliament's own Health Select Committee which unanimously condemned the handing of our powers to regulate this industry in NZ to what is essentially an Australian body. .

Those of you who have been following the struggle against the Joint Agency may be interested to know that on 18th June 2004 the Health Select Committee released its report into the Treaty with the Australians signed by Annette King in December.  It is a report damming to the government - recommending that the treaty NOT be signed off unless fundamental issues are addressed.  That report is now available on the NZHT website (top of the list in documents). 

Also check out the news releases in response to the report from NZHT and The Greens under news on the website

Although a Treaty has been signed the battle is far from over. 

The joint agency cannot become a reality unless the Government (Labour) can convince Parliament (all the MP's) to pass legislation to make it law in NZ.  Labour is a minority Government.  It can't do this on its own and so far all the opposition parties have expressed their clear opposition to the proposal.   If Labour cannot get enough votes then Annette's Treaty is dead!  The worst thing the industry can do now is think that the fight is over - it is anything but.

Labour have said that the all important legislation is likely to be presented to Parliament in the next few months - watch this space!

Kind regards

Dave Sloan

NZHT

 


 
 

 
 


 
 

 

 

 

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