| Bill C-51: a good idea |
[May. 12th, 2008|04:11 pm] |
Brace yourselves, folks: I'm about to praise a piece of Conservative legislation. The End Times are surely near.
There's been a bit of a kerfuffle in the media recently about Bill C-51, an act introduced last month to update the Food and Drugs Act. Basically, it requires people who sell "therapeutic products" including herbs, beet juice, magnets and what-have-you to make sure that their advertising has some basis in reality. If you say that your garlic extract can cure cancer and give people a better sex life, you'd better be able to point to a double-blind clinical trial that proves it. As far as I'm concerned, this is an excellent idea that should have been implemented years ago.
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Expect to see more nonsense about "banning herbs" in the news. When I worked at Queen's Park, various alternative health organizations had a lobbying presence comparable to the pharmaceutical companies, and a lot of them are going to be losing business over this legislation. I'll be interested to see what happens to the bill. |
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