Sunday, May 1, 2011

New EU regulations on herbal medicines

New EU rules came into force yesterday banning hundreds of traditional herbal remedies. This aims to protect byers from possible damaging side-effects of over-the-counter herbal medicines. This is good since we can't always be sure whether the supplement is 100% safe because of possible side effects and interactions with other drugs, but on the contrast this limits the freedom of choice.

From now on only products that have been assessed by the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will be allowed to go on sale. These new regulations will allow only long-established and quality-controlled medicines to be sold. Both herbal remedy practitioners and manufacturers fear they could be forced out of business though.

Check the original piece of news here.

15 comments:

  1. just sounds like they are trying to prevent people from selling preventive medication.

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  2. I hope it turns people into zombies.

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  3. Well I guess that's good. Trying to protect us and whatnot.

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  4. Stupid EU... I think it should be up to every nation to decide, not a bunch of idiots in Brussel.

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  5. I think this is for the better; there were too many hogus bogus products out there...

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  6. Herbal remedies can always be a hit and a miss sort of thing.

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  7. Meh... my opinion goes both ways on this one.

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  8. Herbal remedies sometimes work

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  9. I would prefer the freedom of choice, but in today's world this doesn't come as a surprise.

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  10. Yep thats EU for you. I dont even

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  11. That's pretty crazy dude. We still have heaps of herbal stuff in my country.

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  12. i feel as though it could lead to the legalization of marijuana, that is only a good thing

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  13. thank you for the post. my son is just about researching the entire legalization of this medicinal drug. we could use some of your written material for the job. :)

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