VSB has asked Health Minister Zane DeSilva to retract comments he made in the House of Assembly about the radio station's coverage of the pharmaceuticals controversy.Mr DeSilva delivered a ministerial statement on Friday in response to news stories linking his decision to allow generic drugs to be imported here from India, Israel and Brazil with the launch of a new healthcare company by former Premier Ewart Brown.A legal notice revealing the incorporation of the company by Dr Brown, Government race consultant Rolfe Commissiong and Indian businessman Ven Subramanian appeared in the Bermuda Sun on Wednesday.Mr DeSilva said he was made aware of the notice after he met with pharmacists to discuss their concerns about the new rules on importation.The Minister said he told the pharmacists he was prepared to allow the importation of drugs from any country, so long as they were eligible for sale in the US, Canada and the UK.“I was not aware of that [legal] notice during my meeting with the pharmacists and it was not a topic of discussion contrary to what VSB reported,” he said. “I'm not sure where they got their information but it certainly wasn't from me and it certainly wasn't true.”Bryan Darby, VSB's news director, released a transcript of the broadcast yesterday afternoon and said in a statement: “No such comment was ever made in a VSB report, as the attached script for Wednesday night and Thursday morning indicates.“So we would like to inform Minister DeSilva that if he can prove his allegation (he claims to have tapes) we will donate $1,000 to the charity of his choice. Otherwise, we would appreciate a retraction.”The VSB script refers to the legal notice appearing in the Sun and claims Dr Brown's company will “engage in, among other things, the wholesale importation and distribution of generic medicines from India”.It goes on to say that “within hours” of the notice appearing, pharmacists were locked in a “heated meeting” with the Health Minister “who continued to maintain that his Government's move was designed to bring down the cost of prescriptions for Bermuda”.The Bermuda Sun also reported on Friday that Dr Brown's company would import cheaper, generic drugs from India, though, like VSB, it didn't disclose where it got the information.Mr DeSilva scotched the claim in Parliament, telling MPs: “The assumption has been made and it is an incorrect assumption that Dr Brown is forming this company to import drugs from India and he couldn't do this unless I added India to the list of designated countries. Nothing could be further from the truth.”