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From: "Jan Coetzee" <>
Subject: Aids drug in South Africa
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:34:24 -0400

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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." 


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