Even after The National Agency for Complementary Health (AnVisa) bannedLarge pharmacy networks continue to sell food supplements that contain Ora-PRO-Nobis.
The decision prohibiting the sale, distribution and manufacture of nutritional supplements that bring Ora-PRO-Nobis be published in its formation in the Federal Official Gazette last Thursday (3) and I am already in effect.
According to AnVisa, this scale was adopted because the plant is its scientific name Accuala Peaskia Unauthorized as a component of nutritional supplements.
The next day to publish the decision, CNN Search for complementary on web sites for the main pharmacy networks that operate in Brazil. At approximately 11:30 am on Friday (4), the report found that the Ora-PRO-Nobis capsules are still sold in at least five of these networks.
Learn about pharmacies that were still selling the product:
- Sao Paulo Pharmacy
- Pacheco Pharmacy
- Lower
- Panfille
- Extrafarma
The Sao Paulo and Pachiko Pharmacy belongs to the same business group. In other networks, the material is sold, but not in the form of nutritional supplements. In one of them, there, for example, cream depends on Ora-PRO-NOBIS.
Interrogate CNNAnvisa stated that “the sale of sales in pharmacies is made by health spaces for each site.”
What do pharmacies say
DPSP-droGARIAS SãO Paulo and Pacheco Says group that “does not shop the Ora-PRO-Nobis in their network, and is always compatible with all the rules that regulate the pharmaceutical retail sector.” The company says that “after the publication of Anvisa’s decision on the official channels, the group determined a market seller negotiating this type of product, and as a flyer, the process is already suspended in digital channels,” the company says.
Other networks have been searched, but they haven’t spoken yet.
Why was the article banned?
Noting, Anvisa stated that “in order to be a specific component authorized as a food supplement, the component concerned will be subject to security and effectiveness, which is scientifically proven that the product is a source of some food or substance related to the human body.”
The agency adds that “nutritional supplements are not medications, and therefore, they cannot claim treatment effects such as treatment, prevention, or disease treatment,” the agency added. “Dietary supplements are for healthy people. The purpose of them is to provide food, biological active, enzymes or probiotics in addition to food.”
Finally, Anvisa explained that this measure does not affect the consumption or sale of the new factory. Ora-PRO-Nobis “is a plant that has a tradition of use in daily food, especially in the cases of Goiás and Minas Gerais.”
See here the list of nutritional supplements authorized by AnVisa.
