Illegal vitamins recalled: [1 All-round Country Edition]
Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 Nov 2003: 4.
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She said the vitamins were not registered in Australia and their US manufacturer, Pharmavite LLA, had not been approved by Australian authorities under theGood Manufacturing Practice Program. They were brought into Australia for market research purposes by NW Consulting and then illegally marketed.
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THE recall of just 99 bottles of vitamins has been ordered by the Therapeutic Goods Administration after it was discovered they were being sold illegally in pharmacies in NSW and Victoria.
The Government is refusing to name the four pharmacies in Victoria and four in NSW that were selling the illegal vitamins.
All Nature Made vitamin products are being recalled, including Vitamin C with Rose Hip, Vitamin B12 and Vitamin E.
Advertisements alerting consumers to the recall will appear in Victorian and NSW newspapers today.
TGA spokeswoman Kay McNiece said the vitamins were not necessarily unsafe.
She said the vitamins were not registered in Australia and their US manufacturer, Pharmavite LLA, had not been approved by Australian authorities under theGood Manufacturing Practice Program. They were brought into Australia for market research purposes by NW Consulting and then illegally marketed.
`Not only is the product not registered, which means it has not been tested, but we have no good manufacturing arrangements with the company,’ she said.
`To market these drugs in Australia is totally illegal.’