Attention

Due to government legislation, the selling of seeds, herbs and plants from the same location that therapeutic uses are given about plants, would contravene the law.

THEREFORE...
We do not display or advertise any information of therapeutic uses, of any kind on this web site.

The following is an excerpt from the letter that was sent to us by the Environmental Health department, Queensland.

When we enquired as to how this applies to 'Medicinal Herbs', we were told that all herbs would probably be classed as food.

Clause 3 of General Food Standard 1.1A.2 states:

“(a) Save where otherwise expressly prescribed by this Code, any label on or attached to a package containing or any advertisement for food shall not include a claim for therapeutic or prophylactic action or a claim described by words of similar import.

(b) Any label on or attached to a package containing or an advertisement for food shall not include the word ‘health’ or and word or words of similar import as a part of or in conjunction with the name of the food.

(c) Save where otherwise expressly prescribed by this Code, any label on or attached to a package containing or any advertisement for food shall not contain any word, statement, claim, express or implied, or design that directly or by implication could be interpreted as advice of a medical nature from any person.

(d) Save where otherwise expressly prescribed by this Code, the label on or attached to a package containing or any advertisement for food shall not contain the name of or a reference to any disease or physiological condition.”

Under the Food Act 2006, an advertisement is defined as:

      “any of the following things used or apparently used to promote, directly or indirectly,
      the sale of food–
      (a) word, whether written or spoken;
      (b) a pictorial representation or design;
      (c) any other type of representation.”

Finally, Section39(4) of the Food Act 2006 states:

“A person must not sell or advertise for sale food in a way that contravenes a provision of the food standards code.”

The maximum penalty for this offence is $52,500.

For your reference, General Food Standard 1.1A.2 of the Food Standards Code and the Food Act 2006 are available, free of charge, at: http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/thecode/foodstandardscode.cfm and: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/CURRENT/F/FoodA06.pdf respectively.

We believe that all information on this website is in line with all legal codes of practice.