Hoodia Gordonii is a product which is owed basically to the San tribes. Because of their experience on the desert, they were the focus group when this story began. In fact, it was the CSIR that started to study the eating habits of the Bushmen when the hoodia gordonii anti-obesity properties were found.

But what did the Bushmen get for their involvement in the Hoodia Gordonii discovery?

Well, at the beginning, they got nothing. Furthermore, when the CSIR licensed the patent to Phytopharm it was assumed that the tribe which discovered the Hoodia Gordonii plant had died out and therefore no royalties were due.

Then, the San people found that other parties would be receiving billions of dollars and they would receive nothing! It was Roger Chennells, a South african lawyer representing the Bushmen, that acted energically with legal and political pressure on both the CSIR and Phytopharm. Chennells claimed that the taking of such traditional knowledge with no compensation was biopiracy and should be stopped.

After some time with hard negotiations, Chennells convinced CSIR and Phytopharm to compensate the San tribes. As a consequence of it, actually every company that legally harvests hoodia gordonii from wild or commercial plantations in South Africa must pay royalties back to the San tribes.

It means that only the legally harvested hoodia gordonii which then is processed as weight loss diet pills, like our Hoodia products only pays to the San. This practice, is not only fair, but it also gives the opportunity to check if the hoodia you are buying is pure and legitime hoodia, with production processes under the law. Otherwise, if you buy Hoodia gordonii products without any evidence of legal certificates probably are buying hoodia gordonii products not pure, ilegally harvested and exported and unfair, because no royalties have been paid to the San tribes.

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