ozone therapy

Ozone therapy banned in Malaysia

Ozone therapy has finally been gaining some mainstream traffic worldwide in the last few years.  In fact, at recent IOA conferences, and in the Ozone Journal medical applications of ozone has finally been given, time, space and honest evaluation.

However, the country of Malaysia has recently banned ozone in medical applications by blanketly banning “ozone therapy”.

See link below for full new stories on this topic:

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/05/07/ozone-therapy-a-danger-but-ministry-will-take-a-look-again/

What is ozone therapy, and why is Malaysia completely banning it?

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Banner at clinic promoting ozone therapy in Malaysia

This ban is getting reconsidered due to requests in the country:

BALIK PULAU: The Health Ministry will do an indepth study on “ozone therapy” after the Ozone Medical Practitioners Association Malaysia asked that the ban on the treatment be reconsidered.

Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya said the ministry would take another look although the treatment has been found to be dangerous and offers no benefit to patients.

“Ozone therapy is a dangerous treatment as it has a molecule that is unstable and can produce air bubbles in the blood,” he told reporters after attending the Jom Cari Siput contest here yesterday.
Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/05/07/ozone-therapy-a-danger-but-ministry-will-take-a-look-again/#oybwiUFcSDrMw4QG.99

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