Thursday 12 April 2012

More repressive legislation for New Zealand

Proposed ‘Natural Health Products Bill’ in New Zealand Would Fine Individuals $50,000 for Making a Cup of Unapproved Herbal Tea


12 April, 2012

I tried to determine if one could theoretically wind up on the wrong side of this thing for producing, for example, one’s own chamomile tea.

The following is from Natural Health Products Bill 324-1:

Manufacture of natural health products
28 Licence to manufacture natural health products
(1) A person must not manufacture a natural health product without
a licence to manufacture granted under section 29.
(2) The following persons are exempt from subsection (1): 25
(a) any exporter of a natural health product who is not also
seeking an export certificate for the product; and
(b) any health practitioner who makes a natural health product
to be administered to a particular person after being
requested by or on behalf of that person to use the prac- 30
titioner’s own judgement as to the treatment required.
29 Application for licence to manufacture
(1) An application for a licence to manufacture natural health
products must be made to the Authority in the prescribed
manner.

Boiled down, it looks like this: “A person must not manufacture a natural health product without a licence.” The exemptions to this are some exporters and health practitioners. That’s it. I see nothing about exemptions for personal use.

So, hmm.

I suppose it depends on what the government means by the word, “manufacture.” Maybe there’s a lawyer in New Zealand who could let us know what the word manufacture means in this context.

The grim reality that the government is seeking to regulate just about anything it wants as a natural health product, requiring licenses, databases, mandatory inspections, and imposing fines, jail sentences, etc., etc. on those who don’t comply, is a different matter.

First things first: Can someone, in theory, wind up facing a NZ$50,000 fine for making their own chamomile tea?

The fact that the question has to be asked at all is just another indication that New Zealand is doomed.


If passed, NHPB will combine with the equally-threatening New Zealand Food Bill (http://www.naturalnews.com) to make it essentially illegal for individuals to even prepare for themselves, let alone try to sell, herbal products and teas, vitamins and supplements, or any other natural products that are not explicitly approved by the government as acceptable.

Overturning the common law principles of freedom that have triumphed in New Zealand for centuries, Bill 324-1 will require that all herbal remedies, traditional treatments, homeopathic remedies and dietary supplements first be approved — and very strictly regulated — by the government before being allowed to be sold or even prepared for one’s own personal use.

The system will, for the first time in New Zealand, introduce risk-based regulation of natural health products,” says Bill 324-1. In simple terms, this means that natural herbs, vitamins, minerals, and all other nutrients used to promote health and prevent disease will be subject to the same corrupt regulatory approval process that pharmaceutical drugs are, which will in turn make it difficult or even impossible for New Zealanders to access many of these products in the future.

Research Credit: alvinroasting

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