From ABC 7:30 Report: Feb. 24th, 2010. Herbal remedies are not regulated nor tested properly prior to marketing. No quality control exists to prevent dose mismanagement or to identify adulteration with contaminants and poisons. 25% of herbs originating from one Asian source contain Western Medications. This leads to dangerous allergic reactions, cross reaction, herb/drug interactions and a plethora of side effects. Herbal remedies also contain mercury, arsenic and lead. Arsenic is a metalloid. Lead & mercury are metals. Lead poisoning is devastating. The mercury is not monitored, measured or controlled - nor does it serve any purpose: it is a Contaminant. More so, it is likely to be Elemental Mercury - not methyl mercury as found in biomass nor ethyl mercury used in the clinical and adultery free preservative Thimerosal. Thimerosal is used as a preservative in many medicinal products, including some vaccination preparations. This makes a predictable mockery of anti-vaccination claims that vaccines "cause autism" due to containing Elemental Mercury, such that vaccine preventable diseases may be "managed" with herbs. This sad revelation is made worse in that lead poisoning leads to many of the horrors blamed on vaccines by pro-herbal antivaccination lobbyists: convulsions, encephalopathy, nerve damage, CNS developmental problems, etc, etc. www.lead.org.au These herbal remedies have high potential for Adverse Reactions, Drug Interactions and Side Effects - certain to be ...