A CAMPAIGN is being waged to strip 2000 complementary medicine products from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods amid claims the listing dupes the public into thinking the therapies work.Current regulations allow the Therapeutic Goods Administration to list therapeutics, despite limited evidence for their efficacy, because they are deemed low-risk and only carry claims for health maintenance for non-serious, self-limiting conditions.But Ms Loretta Marron, a retired scientist from Queensland, said the system meant the TGA was giving fake legitimacy to remedies with no basis in science” such as homeopathy.If I am successful [in getting these products de-listed] it will help clean our pharmacies of placebo products that are sold on the basis that they are natural or traditional,” she said.Ms...
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