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------------------- Original Message -------------------
From: Geoff Reid <[FOI #25133 email]>;
Received: Mon Dec 11 2023 20:16:29 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>;
Subject: Official Information request - Data on how medsafe audits the
sale of therapeutic products eg: VitC, Zinc, glutathione

Dear Ministry of Health,

Please provide all data and information on the methodologies used by
Medsafe that are used to audit practitioners that are advertising and/or
supplying unapproved medicines/“therapeutic products" specifically but not
restricted to intravenous vitamin C, zinc, glutathione and B-dose.

Please provide the number of warning notices that have been issued by
Medsafe to practitioners or practices advertising such substances in the
last 2 years. How many of those warnings have lead to legal action being
taken?

Please prove how Medsafe, by auditing the sales price of ’therapeutic
products’ is keeping in alignment of their mission statement:
"To enhance the health of New Zealanders by regulating medicines and
medical devices to maximise safety and benefit.”

Yours faithfully,

Geoff Reid
 

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Kia ora Geoff

 

Please see attached a response to your request for official information.

 

Ngā mihi 

  

 

OIA Services Team

Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health

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Kia ora Geoff
Please see attached a response to your request for official information.

Ngā mihi 

  

OIA Services Team

Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health

M[1]inistry of Health information releases 
U[2]nite against COVID-19 

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