{"id":1810,"date":"2014-02-24T03:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthritisaustralia.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2018-04-12T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:04:37","slug":"herbal-medicines-study-raises-alarm-over-labelling-24-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/herbal-medicines-study-raises-alarm-over-labelling-24-february-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbal medicines: Study raises alarm over labelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<samp>By Lucy Carroll<\/samp>\n<p>Many herbal medicines are being sold with dodgy labelling and fail to comply with regulations, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Adelaide discovered that almost 20 per cent of the herbal remedies surveyed &#8211; including vitamins, minerals and fish oils available at supermarkets and pharmacies &#8211; are not registered with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, despite it being a legal condition for their sale.<\/p>\n<p>And almost 60 per cent had ingredients that did not match what is listed on the bottle or pack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We are talking about significant differences between the stated concentrations and what the manufacturers have had approved with the TGA,&#8221; said lead author and senior lecturer in pharmacology at University of Adelaide, Ian Musgrave.<\/p>\n<h4>To read the article in full, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/health\/herbal-medicines-study-raises-alarm-over-labelling-20140223-33aex.html#ixzz2uC05QAXO\">www.smh.com.au\/national\/health\/herbal-medicines-study-raises-alarm-over-labelling<\/a><\/h4>\n<samp><em>Reviewed and updated February 2014<\/em><\/samp>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lucy Carroll Many herbal medicines are being sold with dodgy labelling and fail to comply with regulations, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Adelaide discovered that almost 20 per cent of the herbal remedies surveyed &#8211; including vitamins, minerals and fish oils available at supermarkets and pharmacies &#8211; are not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}