B.C. male initial chairman convicted for sale of supposed spectacle tonic

Stanley Nowak has turn a initial chairman convicted underneath a Food and Drug Act for marketing, wrapping and offered a supposed Miracle Mineral Solution, a controversial tonic that’s been marketed as a heal for a accumulation of illnesses, diseases and conditions, including AIDS, cancer and autism.

The 67-year-old B.C. male pleaded guilty to 17 charges underneath a act this week and was given a two-year redeeming judgment and a two-year trial order. The remaining 12 charges opposite him were stayed. 

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada told CBC News it is a initial self-assurance involving MMS in Canada. 

Health Canada has been warning about a dangers of a supposed Miracle Mineral Solution for years. MMS contains sodium chlorite, a chemical used especially as a weave splotch representative and disinfectant.

Health Canada has pronounced ingesting it can means critical health problems, including poisoning, kidney disaster and mistreat to red blood cells.

The resolution has been promoted by a Dominican Republic-based Genesis II Church, that lists MMS as one of a sacraments and claims that when sodium chlorite is diluted with H2O it can heal many of a world’s diseases.

Genesis II Church’s ‘water catharsis drops,’ containing 28 per cent sodium chlorite and strong water. Health Canada says sodium chlorite can be damaging if ingested and has released several warnings over a years. (Health Canada)

Some of a charges date behind to 2012 when Nowak and his daughter Sara were purported by Health Canada to have marketed, finished and sole MMS in B.C. and Alberta “in a demeanour that was false, dubious or deceptive.” 

The 20 Food and Drug Act charges that Sara Nowak of Okotoks, Alta., was confronting were stayed in Vancouver provincial justice this week. 

“At a sentencing conference [for Stanley Nowak] a Crown and counterclaim due a corner acquiescence of a redeeming judgment sequence of dual years reduction a day followed by dual years of probation. The justice concluded and Mr. Nowak was condemned accordingly,” said a orator for a charge use in an email to CBC News.

Nowak will be underneath residence arrest for a initial 6 months of his judgment and contingency reside by an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for a remaining 18 months. He will be theme to electronic monitoring during a whole two-year sentence.

The justice imposed a series of other conditions on him, including:

• Prohibited from manufacturing, wrapping or offered any drugs as drugs are tangible underneath a Food and Drug Act.
• Prohibited from possessing sodium chlorite, chlorine dioxide or powder citric acid.
• Prohibited from counselling any chairman to sell or devour sodium chlorite.
• Prohibited from creation open or edition any information respecting MMS, sodium chlorite, chlorine dioxide or citric poison on the internet.
• Prohibited from communicating with Mark Grenon, Joseph Grenon or any other member of a Genesis II Church.

Nowak was also systematic to perform 240 hours of village service.

Health Canada released a matter to CBC News:

“Health Canada is gratified with a outcome of this case. That outcome reflects a department’s ongoing work to strengthen Canadians from unapproved health products that poise critical health risks.”

“The work that led to this successful charge illustrates Health Canada’s joining to holding movement opposite people and activities that poise a risk to Canadians, by regulating all collection during a disposal.”

A still picture from a G2 Voice channel on YouTube. Bishop Jonathan Grenon, right, and CBC contributor Bryan Labby are prisoner on video by someone during a church’s assembly in Calgary on March, 17, 2018. (YouTube)

The Genesis II Church hold a convention in Calgary in Mar sparking a examination by Health Canada, that is still ongoing. 

Jonathan Grenon, whose father is named as an archbishop with a church, told CBC News during a time they were not offered or compelling MMS during a weekend seminar.

“We don’t sell anything, we don’t wish to answer any some-more questions right now,” pronounced Grenon, who identified himself as a bishop with a Genesis II Church.

The church’s website says it has 3,000 members in 135 countries, including Canada.

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