If it quacks 鈥ell it can鈥檛 quack anymore because its liver was removed by a homeopathic 鈥渞emedy鈥� producer. And that duck liver is enough to provide the world with 鈥淥scillococcinum鈥� for years. Hopefully those sales will be impaired in the future. I've been informed that the lawsuit that was launched last year against Shoppers Drug Mart and Boiron labs for false labeling of homeopathic products is set to go before the courts in Ontario next year. It is a bit of a roundabout way of getting these scientifically bankrupt products out of pharmacies. Since homeopathic "remedies" are legal, although they require no proof of efficacy other than to be listed in some homeopathic pharmacopia no matter how ancient, they can only be challenged on terms of false labeling. Oscillococcimum is a "flu remedy" made from the diluted extract of the liver and heart of a duck. At 200C dilution it doesn't even contain a molecule that has been in contact with a molecule that has been in contact with a duck liver. Not that it matters, because the "therapy" is ridiculous. But since the label claims that the pills contain duck extract, and no chemical analysis can reveal the presence of such, the label information is false. Therefore the product is illegally labeled. The fact that it is made from duck liver seems very appropriate for a quack product.
