The disappearing containers of drugs. Containers of prescription counterfeit medications (yes, all the well known ones) are found by Customs and nobody is told. How would you like to have a stroke because your blood pressure meds are talc and colouring? Nobody is alerting the public nothing is being done.
If we can follow a slab of meat from farmer to shop surely the same can be done with medicine. Government is keeping quiet as is Michael Carmody. Is it because the big pharmaceutical companies don’t want consumers to lose confidence, or is it they don’t want the expense of putting a system in place to track product? And it’s not only meds — Fosters knows about the containers of fake beer out of China; they kept that very quiet.
What are the Greens thinking? Check out this ad from Greens Victorian election candidate Liam Farrelly. It’s embarrassing that the clip looks more like a sale for a carpet warehouse than a legitimate political party…
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