The TGA states that it has not registered any products as a preventative treatment for COVID-19 infection.
"We allege an advertisement that claims a particular medicine can prevent COVID-19 could put lives at risk and is likely to be illegal".
The TGA alleges that the site advertised the products as being effective against "cancerous cells", contrary to prohibition under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) of representations relating to the treatment, cure, prevention, diagnosis, monitoring or susceptibility to cancer.
SGC's sole director gained national attention with the Essendon Football Club doping scandal.
The triviality of the penalty signals the need to ramp up deterrence in the 'anti-aging' and 'wellness' space.
A breathless June 2013 piece in the Melbourne Herald Sun stated
A man who walks the talk, the 45-year-old has been on "the gear" all his adult life. If he's pushing steroids, he's using them. If he's promoting peptides, he's injecting them himself. If he's treating sportsmen with platelet-rich plasma, he's tried it on his own dodgy knees. While researching a paper on steroid detection in rats for his university biochemistry degree, Charter used some of the steroids on the animals and kept the rest for himself. Research and development, an enterprise that allows scientists to legitimately import a range of chemicals into Australia with a permit, remains part of the work Charter does at his Melbourne anti-ageing clinic, Dr Ageless. Dr Ageless began his professional life as a pharmaceutical salesman for global medical research giant AstraZeneca, building his own business as a personal trainer on the side in the late 1990s.
On meeting Charter, it's easy to understand how he was able to ingratiate himself with the big end of town. With a gentle voice that belies his imposing physique, he presents himself as a man who knows his science. An expert, a businessman, a professional. Everything is milligrams, hormones, fragments, molecules, volumes, kilograms, hydration, fat, composition, muscle and more.
He documents his correspondence with the diligence of a librarian and watches his bank balance like an accountant. His multi-million-dollar vineyard home in Sunbury, on Melbourne's outskirts, features a fully equipped gym, the walls of which are plastered with anatomical drawings and charts. Biology textbooks are piled high on his office desk and pictures of famous sports stars he has worked with line the walls. Less visible, however, is evidence of his criminal clients.
Charter's first and only brush with the law came in 2004 during Operation Macer, a joint investigation by Victoria Police's major drug investigation division and Customs. Before that, he had never been on the law enforcement radar. So it was no surprise when he turned Crown witness in the drug prosecution that saw a number of figures jailed over a large-scale steroid and pseudoephedrine trafficking operation.
County Court judge John Smallwood noted Charter had been a genuine witness and seemed confused about why he would throw away a successful career by turning to crime.
"You clearly were very good at what you did and gave advice to high-powered people and organisations," sentencing judge Smallwood said. "Why you commenced this offending is beyond me." ...
Charter alleges that he sourced a range of substances for sacked sports scientist Stephen Dank while Dank worked for Essendon. He has supplied ASADA with a list of peptides and hormones he claims Dank had requested. Of the substances Dank allegedly requested, Charter has records that indicate he supplied him with growth hormone six, CJC-1295, Melatonan II, Thymosin beat 4 and mechano growth factor.
Separately, he recalls that Dank had also asked him for advice about using what is known as a Myers Cocktail. Popular among bodybuilders, it is a 45-minute intravenous infusion of various vitamins and minerals. And at about $800 per drip, it's not cheap. Charter says he ordered the required equipment, but Dank never collected it.
In 2015 The Age reported
The self-styled biochemist known as "Dr Ageless", Shane Charter, appears to have shrugged off the Essendon supplements scandal and is pursuing a new business venture - chasing more than $11 million hidden in offshore tax havens by conman Peter Foster.
Mr Charter has been negotiating for several months on behalf of Mr Foster and business partner Peter Nolan in a bid to stop legal proceedings by more than 150 investors in the failed online gambling company, Sports Trading Club.
Emails seen by Fairfax Media reveal that Mr Charter and Melbourne solicitor Mario Merlo offered to pay more than $7 million to a syndicate of disgruntled investors if they agreed to drop civil and criminal proceedings against Mr Foster over allegations of fraud and money laundering.
But the syndicate rebuffed the offer and lodged a writ in the Supreme Court of NSW alleging Mr Foster and 10 associates engaged in "misleading and deceptive conduct" and helped siphon more than $11 million to Hong Kong, Vanuatu and the Cayman Islands.
