DRUGS IN MEDICINES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20480, 4 February 1930, Page 12

DRUGS IN MEDICINES.

DEMAND FOR DISCLOSURE. PROTEST IN VICTORIA. r Hostility to the refusal of tho Victorian Food Standards Committee to recommend a farther extension of tho ■ suspension of b regulation under the Health Act, 1919,• requiring that-the "names of drugs in patent medicines shall be given on the pacKagc, is expressed hi a circular letter to memoers of the State Parliament from the Proprietary Defence Association of Australia. For about five years the operation of the.regulation has been suspended, but, the Food Standards Coinmittce has now refused to grant another extension. • Tho letter slates that the* operation of it-lie regulation would lead to several wfillIcriovvn manufacturers removing their factories from Victoria. Their products would be withdrawn from tho Victorian market, and would bo distributed to customers iu Victoria through agents iu other States. Many thousands of pounds worth of proprietary medicines would bo rendered unsaleable) by the proposed regulations, ahd tiho question of compensation would arise. Inexperienced persons, with the scanty knowledge obtained from particulars declared on wrappers, would crudely, copy reLiablo remedies and substitute for them badly compounded and worthless ■products.