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Publication type: Journal Article

Watson R
New European rules require all herbal medicines to be registered
BMJ 2011 May 6; 342:
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d2815.extract


Abstract:

Since 1 May all traditional herbal medicines available in health food shops, pharmacies, and other outlets in the European Union must be formally registered and approved before they can be sold. The new rules mean that only products whose use is “plausible on the basis of longstanding use and experience” and whose quality and safety are guaranteed will be licensed.

The new requirements are set out in the EU’s Traditional Herbal Products Directive. Agreed in 2004, the directive gave manufacturers of traditional herbal remedies a seven year transitional period to register their products already on sale in the EU with the relevant national authorities.

John Dalli, the EU health …

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909