The Government has taken further steps to providing better regulation for medicines, medical devices, and natural health products with the first reading of a bill to repeal the Therapeutic Products Act 2023, says Casey Costello.
Repealing the Therapeutic Products Act (TPA) shows the Government is listening to the concerns of industry and consumers, said Costello.
“The TPA would have led to the overregulation of low-risk products, imposed unnecessary costs and created more barriers to access to medicines and medical products.”
The TPA was not due to take effect until September 2026 and the regulatory regime required to support it, including the creation of a new regulatory agency and IT systems, had still to be developed. Repealing the Act now means that industry and practitioners will not have to change their businesses or the way they operate, and there will be no disruption to consumers or the health system.
“There is no question that the current Medicines Act is outdated, and we are already working on a modern, fit-for-purpose regulatory system for medicines and medical devices and what will be a separate system for natural health products,” said Costello.
“We can replace the TPA with legislation that protects consumers without creating unnecessary red tape for industry and I will take proposals to cabinet later this year.”
Repealing the TPA is a commitment in the National-New Zealand First and National-ACT coalition agreements.
Until new legislation is passed the Medicines Act and Dietary Supplement Regulations, which are currently in place, will continue to apply.
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Testing vitamins and supplements to confirm ingredients would be the most helpful 🤔.
Good on Casey Costello. Some of the things to be banned on that bill were ridiculous – herbs and spices to begin with. All under the hand of Ayesha Verall with the guidance of Medsafe. But exemptions there will be -‘ the Bill includes an exemption scheme for small scale natural health product manufacturers and removes obligations which might otherwise have applied to rongoā [traditional Māori medicine] practitioners, services and activities.
“Proposed changes to the Bill will ensure whānau can continue to use, create, and manage rongoā as they have for generations.”
But of course. How could anyone have thought the law would apply to all citizens without differentiation? But you, because you are who you are, will no longer be able to use nutmeg!
The reflexive action of the globalist minion is to ban and always under the pretext of ‘caring for your health’. The same insane reason they gave for forcing people to be injected with an experimental mRNA therapy.
Yes Harry Jensen, testing vitamin and supplements to confirm ingredients would be most helpful but there is no-one now whose results I would believe in this country where ‘experts’ tell us flouridating the water is good for us, and where the medical profession is still touting covid injections.