Complaints filed against homeopathic remedy manufacturer

They can go after the homeopaths in Australia . . . why not in the US?

Pharmacare Laboratories is facing a new complaint about its Kids Smart homeopathic medicines amid concerns parents who use the products may delay seeking medical treatment.

The complaint – lodged by a group of oranisations including CHOICE to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) – alleges promotion of the Kids Smart products implies they are effective in ways that have not been established.

Complainants also claim that the promotion of homeopathic “Kids Smart Calm” for “restlessness, anxiety, irritability and agitation” is inappropriate and dangerous as these symptoms can signify potentially serious childhood infectious diseases such as bacterial meningitis that require medical attention.

Promoting homeopathic “Kids Cold and Flu” and “Kid Pain & Fever” remedies as “effective” against “fever, sore throat and body aches and pain” is also likely to deny children genuinely effective medication such as paracetamol, which can relieve these symptoms. The same holds for the homeopathic “Hayfever” remedy.

Kids Smart Not Medicine products.

So we have a company promoting non-medicine for treatment only of things that will go away on their own, knowing that it doesn’t do anything (since they market it only for things that will go away on their own) . . . and potential for parents to wait to seek medical attention for their little ones as a result. Why aren’t these people in prison?

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