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Publication: By Jennifer Cooke June 12 2003
Beware Growth Hormone Net Scam
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Baxter warns the ads are "all based on little snippets of truth - tied together, the whole doesn't make sense and that's why it's so hard for the public to see what is true and what isn't".
According to Ben Canny, the president of the Endocrine Society of Australia and associate professor of physiology at Monash University, "the bottom line is that drugs by definition are dangerous".
"It would be very much a caveat emptor approach for anyone buying [these products] because you don't know the quality of what you are getting or the appropriateness of using it," he said.
Those taken in by the claims who are tempted to buy "may be taking considerable risks".
A Department of Health spokesman also warned that medicines available over the internet may be "counterfeit or otherwise substandard and claims made about their use may be unsubstantiated".
Unapproved medicines are considered by the TGA to be experimental as no assurance can be given on the quality, safety or effectiveness of the products, nor information on disease transmission risks from either humans or animals.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
June 12 2003
www.smh.com.au
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