Medical products recalled, licence suspended

Australian Prime Minister John Howard had to urge Australians not to panic, after health authorities ordered the recall of 219 medical products and suspended the licence of the country’s largest manufacturer of herbal vitamins and nutritional supplements.

Prime Minister John Howard had to urge Australians not to panic, after health authorities ordered the recall of 219 medical products and suspended the licence of the country’s largest manufacturer of herbal vitamins and nutritional supplements.

Pan Pharmaceuticals had its manufacturing licence suspended yesterday for six months after a series of alleged safety and quality breaches.