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------------------- Original Message -------------------
From: M WOODWARD <[FOI #26497 email]>;
Received: Sun Apr 21 2024 15:22:54 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>;
Subject: Official Information request - Medicinal cannabis products
recalls

Dear Ministry of Health,

I am looking for all information regarding medicinal cannabis products
recalls and issues since the inception of the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme
(April 1 2020):

Please provide:
- Total amount of medical cannabis products recalled including product
details, why they were recalled and how many patients were affected.
- Any information about how effective the recall was, including how many
patients returned their product
- Any information on patients having side effects or needing treatment
from recalled products, including whether they consumed the product before
or after the recall

Yours faithfully,
M Wood

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Kia ora M Woodward,

 

Please find attached our response to your official information request.

 

Ngā mihi 

  

 

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Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health

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Kia ora
  
Thank you for your request for official information. The reference number
for your request is: H2024044075
  
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endeavour to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after
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-----Original Message-----
From: M WOODWARD [5][FOI #26497 email] 
Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2024 4:53 pm
To: OIA Requests [6][email address]
Subject: Re: Your official information request ref: H2024039976

 

Dear OIA Requests,

 

Thank you for your response, it is appreciated.

 

Regarding: "Total amount of medical cannabis products recalled including
product details, why they were recalled and how many patients were
affected. "

 

Are you able to provide how many patients were affected as this is not
available in the links provided?

 

Regarding: "Any information about how effective the recall was, including
how many patients returned their product "

 

I don't believe that this should be refused entirely under section 9
(2)(b)(ii) of the Act. Please consider releasing the size of the batches
recalled, specifically Kikuya Arroyo, and how much of this batch was
dispensed.

 

If specifics can't be provided, please apply these questions to the
medical cannabis scheme as a whole and not broken down into product type
(ie Total amount of medical cannabis units recalled & Any information
about how effective the recall was, including total amount of units
returned, since April 1 2020)

 

Thanks again for your time.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

M WOODWARD

 

 

 

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Kia ora
Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.
Ngā mihi 

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