B 17 in the prevention of Cancer.

[petemcewan 27]

Cyclone,

 

I got my supply of apricot kernels ,for my partner, from a health food shop opposite the Mercurial Hotel in the centre of Sheffield. I got them thinking they could help. Maybe I wasn't thinking straight at the time. It was only after further research ,and clearing my mind, that I realised that I could have poisoned him. The kernels are now in the bin.

 

What I can't get my mind round is how B17 can be promoted -and retailed over the counter at health food outlets-as a therapy for cancer.

 

I apologise if my sentence is ambiguous . I'll put it differently. What I can't get my mind

round is how B17 can be promoted as a therapy for cancer. What I can't get my mind round is how apricot kernels(B17 ) can be retailed over the counter at health food outlets.

 

The Internet us full of slick video presentations by even slicker "MD's promoting all kinds of miracle diets and cures. It's enough to make your head spin.

Edited April 5, 2017 by petemcewan

[sgtkate 10]

Those sound like medical claims.

 

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If they're offering to sell it to people based in the UK then UK law would apply wouldn't it?

 

Erm no. I can go a buy thing from a website and company based in Korea if I want. They don't have to meet EU or UK laws to sell it to me. The onus is on me to conform to my laws and not them surely? Otherwise every single company selling anything would need different products to meet legal requirements of every country they could potentially sell to. Isn't this a key part of why leaving the EU doesn't give us the trade freedom people think it will?

[geared 320]

Isn't it actually a crime in the UK to sell or promote substances to treat cancer that haven't been medically verified?

 

That doesn't tend to stop people, especially online.

[petemcewan 27]

This kind of stuff comes to my email:

 

http://www.1cure4cancer.com/testimonials/

 

 

 

http://www.1cure4cancer.com/nutritional-health-care-product-information/

 

And what on earth is B 15 ?

 

http://www.oncodna.com/mediacenter Is this real ?

Edited April 5, 2017 by petemcewan

[dangerousedd 10]

This kind of stuff comes to my email:

 

http://www.1cure4cancer.com/testimonials/

 

 

 

http://www.1cure4cancer.com/nutritional-health-care-product-information/

 

And what on earth is B 15 ?

 

another made up vitamin it seems :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangamic_acid

[Cyclone 10]

Erm no. I can go a buy thing from a website and company based in Korea if I want. They don't have to meet EU or UK laws to sell it to me. The onus is on me to conform to my laws and not them surely? Otherwise every single company selling anything would need different products to meet legal requirements of every country they could potentially sell to. Isn't this a key part of why leaving the EU doesn't give us the trade freedom people think it will?

 

If they try and ship something into the UK that's illegal in the UK, then surely they've just broken the UK law?

 

---------- Post added 05-04-2017 at 13:19 ----------

 

The act

 

The Act's most notable provision is a clause prohibiting taking any part in publication, except under specified conditions, of advertisements that "offer to treat any person for cancer, or to prescribe any remedy therefor, or to give any advice in connection with the treatment thereof". Prosecutions do take place, but are rare.[1]

 

The expression "advertisement" includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper or other document, and any announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting sounds.

 

The Act provides for exceptions in making material available to registered medical and nursing personnel and pharmacists, and for material produced by hospitals and local authorities.

 

There have been prosecutions, although not that many

 

Healthwize UK, fined £2,000[9] with £2,235 costs in March 2009 for selling ellagic acid with claims that it could inhibit the growth of cancer cells - case brought by Derbyshire Trading Standards.

 

If a company is based outside the UK then I accept that little can or will be done.

 

This website is a .co.uk though

 

http://www.anticancerinfo.co.uk/cancer_prevention.html

 

The whois results for the registration are here

 

https://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=anticancerinfo.co.uk#whois-results

 

That person can and probably should be prosecuted for breaking the cancer act.

[sgtkate 10]

If they try and ship something into the UK that's illegal in the UK, then surely they've just broken the UK law?

 

---------- Post added 05-04-2017 at 13:19 ----------

 

The act

 

 

 

There have been prosecutions, although not that many

 

 

 

If a company is based outside the UK then I accept that little can or will be done.

 

This website is a .co.uk though

 

http://www.anticancerinfo.co.uk/cancer_prevention.html

 

The whois results for the registration are here

 

https://www.nominet.uk/whois/?query=anticancerinfo.co.uk#whois-results

 

That person can and probably should be prosecuted for breaking the cancer act.

 

Definitely. Anyone UK based who makes such claims should indeed be prosecuted. Pete, as you started the thread, perhaps you'd like to do the honour of lodging a formal police complaint against the owner of the aforementioned website?

[petemcewan 27]

Thank you everybody, for your informative comments.

 

Sgtkate,

 

If you don't mind and it's not too much trouble. Can I P.M you and seek some advice how I might proceed against the websites ? I really don't have a clue how to do it.

[Cyclone 10]

You can apparently report them to the ASA (online form to do so) and they will take action up to and including prosecuting.

[sgtkate 10]

You can apparently report them to the ASA (online form to do so) and they will take action up to and including prosecuting.

 

Link here:

https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

 

but funnily enough their website is down at that moment.

 

Back now. That was quick!

[petemcewan 27]

Link here:

https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

 

 

 

Sgtkate and Cyclone,

 

Thank you very much for your direction.

 

I submited a complaint at 1038 am today.

[sgtkate 10]

Link here:

https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

 

 

 

Sgtkate and Cyclone,

 

Thank you very much for your direction.

 

I submited a complaint at 1038 am today.

 

 

Let us know how you get on.