PHARMACEUTICAL INFLUENCE

PHARMACEUTICAL INFLUENCE

1. The pharmaceutical consortiums need to release at least one new molecule (product) each year in the market, in order to net profit millions of dollars yearly. According to their own pharmaceutical industry, they destine approximately 18% of their sales in investigation so that a new product can be incorporated in the market. These statistics reveal what’s at stake, and why they ferociously oppose the sale of a bag of herbs at $500 Chilean pesos (US$.70 cents) or a jar of food or herb supplement of $4.000 or $5.000 pesos (US$5.70 or $7) in the national market, against those institutionalized medicines of $20.000 o $115.000 (US$28 or $164). The pharmaceutical knows their vulnerability and threatens those who represent the natural medicine.

2. We warn that the pharmaceutical companies, in Chile as throughout the world, and in all the levels at which they have influence, have declared an underground war on health foods, which are highly competitive and prepared in the base of herbs, and foods that are naturally healthy. The pharmaceuticals accused them of all classes of bad attributes, forgetting their own origins. After 60 years of failure, and getting away form what’s natural, they now see an imminent and growing threat, which puts at risk their secure and trillion-dollar business.
   They seek to survive in the long term in a market that is turning around, where thousands of harmed consumers make up successful millionaire lawsuits, especially in the more industrialized countries. In their desperation, they are found to be using international mechanisms to globalize their influence. One of these bodies is the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, an international organism, dependent upon the WHO/FAO, influenced by the German Bank and International Pharmaceutical Industry. Other instances are in all the Ministries of Health in countries through channels of development.

3. We hereby manifest that the pharmaceutical regulations or overprotection of the people who practice natural health is unnecessary, expensive, beurocratic, and reflects a lack of confidence in the informed consumer. The protection of public health practiced by the Ministry of Health (MINSAL) appears to be more directed to protect the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical companies. It is not public knowledge of rigorous control programs destined to protect the people from harms and the secondary effects of the Pharmaceutical drugs.

4. We warn that there is a profound pharmological influence in all the actions and contents of the laws proceeding from the Ministry of Health. It is enough to read their instructions, their programs of their seminars and their promises and declarations of their directives, to come to realize how far their advisors are from natural methods and how close to the inefficient pharmaceutical treatments.