Dear Ms. Shaheed:
This is ridiculous. Why was the Sota instruments Zapper approved?
The whole world is making a fool out of Health Canada. The manufacturers
and their distributors are using your Ministry's name to sell Zappers.
Do you have Scientologists that work for Health Canada that let this
through the system? That's a question that has to be answered because
one of them was charged in Switzerland by the FTC recently for selling
zappers.
www.quackwatch.org/02ConsumerProtection/FTCActions/clarkassn.html
www.raids.org/hulda2.htm
www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/clark.html
People are being defrauded because Health Canada approved the device.
They are treating cancers, and many other diseases with these devices.
Someone could die.
It is an emergency. It is a matter of life or death and the government
of Canada is responsible for allowing these devices on the market.
Are you going to look around for ways to cover your butts, or are you
going to take these thing off the market?
The FTC is going after Hulda Clark device vendors, and Canada welcomes
their manufacture. The Competition Bureau is going after cancer
scammers, and Health Canada allows their promotion.
I think that the people in your department should go to this FTC sight
tomorrow and listen in.
www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/usmcma2.htm
The Competition Bureau has to spend our money to repair the damage that
your department helped to create.
Who approved the Sota instruments company type zapper devices?
Was it a single person?
Was it a committee?
I am not going to wait for your investigative report. I am seriously
considering legal action against against Health Canada for allowing a
quack cancer treatment device on the market when they were knowledgeable
of the devastating effects of such devices on the lives of people who
used them.
Really Nancy, it used to be things like the Acuone weight loss band
would come along and all they would have to do is snap their fingers,
fill out a few bloody form, and some idiot MD or PhD who worked as a
civil servant would rubber stamp it at Health Canada.
Then there were all those quack vegatest machines and their cousins that
cure all sorts problems. Health Canada allowed scores of them on the
market. Even when exposed as incompetent by investigative journalists,
Health Canada has done nothing to remove them from the market. You can't
even find anything in the database.
The Health Canada device database is a joke. There is no useful
information on the database.
Tens of thousands of patients a months are scammed by quacks because
Health Canada has allowed these device to be used in Canada.
Now, in a clearly incompetent move, Health Canada allows a known quack
cancer device on the market and all you can tell me is that you are
investigating it, and can't comment.
Well, who the hell will comment?
Who will ban these devices, and who will shut the major manufacturers
down before someone dies. Almost all the major Zapper manufacturers are
in Canada.
My web sites have covered the Zapper for years. I have complained for
years. I have called and notified the Device Branch employees for years.
I told them in March 2000 that the devices would be in Toronto at the
Total Health Expo. Guess what, no one cared. No one came. Hulda Clark
made thousands of dollars on our soil selling her zappers and training
people on the Syncrometer to treat cancer a the Toronto Convention
Centre, and Health Canada did nothing.
Health Canada knew what these devices were used for. They were warned
about them years ago. Don't you people talk to each other? Don't you care?
I am sick and tired of Health Canada's total and complete refusal to
take any responsibility for this situation.
If Health Canada had any brains at all, they would get rid of those
people at the Device Branch and start all over again and hire an outside
consultant that is a specialist in risk management in the quack cancer
device sector.
So, don't pass me around to people who don't know what is going on, or
who refuse to take responsibility.
The citizens of Canada have been neglected, while Health Canada protect
the scam artists who make these devices. This in unacceptable.
I have filed an ATIP with Health Canada, and we will see where the links
go, and who was responsible for allowing the Zapper type devices on the
market, and who indeed is protecting the right of these scammers to
abuse Canadians.
Terry Polevoy, MD
HealthWatcher.net
Nancy Shadeed wrote:
Dear Dr. Polevoy,
This is in reference to your email to Barbara Harrison regarding the Zapper
Device.
This product is currently under investigation for the labelling claims that
are being made for this device. Since the investigation is currently
underway, we therefore at the present time cannot provide any further
comments on this device until the investigation has been completed.
As discussed in an earlier email sent to you, I did outline the procedures
for licensing of Class II medical devices. If you have any further
questions regarding the licensing procedures please do not hesitate to
contact myself or Don Boyer, Manager of the Device Licensing Division.
Sincerely,
Nancy Shadeed
Head, Regulatory and Scientific Section
Device Licensing Division
Medical Devices Bureau
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