Anti-Vitamin Bill

The Anti-Vitamin Bill is a term given to The Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill introduced to the New Zealand Parliament in 2005 by the then Health Minister, Annette King. This legislation, if passed, would have ratified the Joint Agency Treaty signed in 2003 by Minister King and Trish Worth, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Aging in Australia.

History of the Anti-Vitamin Bill

In 2003 a Joint Agency Treaty was signed in 2003 by the New Zealand Health Minister, Annette King, and Trish Worth, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Aging in Australia. The Treaty is an agreement to bring in to being a trans-Tasman agency called ANZTPA - Australian New Zealand Therapeutic Products Agency.  The new agency would do away with the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (in theory at least) and MedSafe, the New Zealand regulator.

Health Freedom Triumphs

"Anti-Vitamin" Bill Campaign Achievements

February 2007:  Health Freedom launched it’s first protest action in Auckland under the banner "Our Health Our Choice" Say No to Aussie Rules.  Approximately 350 people attended the first march up Queen Street to Myers Park.  The action was reported on the 6 o'clock news on TV3 and TVNZ One as well as Radio New Zealand.

Pan Pharmaceuticals Debacle

The following is a true account of how a rogue bureaucracy, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), can bring down a publicly listed company for no legitimate reason and get away with it. This event serves as a warning to all consumers that our health rights are under threat by such regulators and demonstrates the need for tighter regulations and accountability of the regulators themselves. No story more clearly illustrates why there is a need for consumer watchdogs and action groups to monitor the behaviour regulators worldwide to ensure that bureaucrats do not encroach on our freedom of choice and health freedom rights.