Following three years of pandemic control, governments are not stopping there. Here in New Zealand, the government has introduced the “Therapeutic Products Bill,” which will control how products which appear to benefit health are manufactured, prescribed, imported, advertised, supplied and exported. According to Health Minister Andrew Little:
“It will enable New Zealand to take advantage of advances in medicine, such as cell and tissue therapies, emerging gene therapies, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning software. Having risk-proportionate approval systems will improve access to necessary and life-saving medicines, such as vaccines in a pandemic.”
An important part of the bill aims to regulate the natural health products used by more than 50% of our population.
If the bureaucrat at the regulator office has a bad day there will be no more cinnamon on your coffee lest you receive any health benefit from a cheap compound that cannot be patented is one scenario that could play out.
We have also seen how poorly "emergency use" has been handled, to which an entire clause has been dedicated under this new bill.
Seems like something that costs a whole lot of money and has a-lot of potential vested interests that are up to no good.