X-Message-Number: 17685 From: "Jan Coetzee" <> Subject: Aids drug in South Africa Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:34:24 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C14BB3.EA1EC9C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dr Tony Surridge, acting CEO of Enerkom, and Dr Connie Medlen, immunologist at the University of Pretoria, said the Oxihumate-K capsules distributed had improved the condition of many of the 350 soldiers and civilians participating in the Tanzanian test. It had been proved to boost their immunity against opportunistic infections. The capsules were already on the market as a nutritional supplement called Oximate, Surridge said. On Tuesday The Star reported the Health Department as saying it had denied Enerkom permission to distribute the capsules because of concern over its high chrome content. But ministerial spokesperson Sibani Mngadi said the department's food control unit had indeed, in December last year, authorised Enerkom to distribute Oximate as a nutritional supplement. In the middle of this year, the department revised the list of levels of vitamins and minerals suitable for foodstuffs. "This meant that all products approved under the previous criterion needed to comply with the newly revised conditions." ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01C14BB3.EA1EC9C0 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17685