General Article EU herbal medicines legislation fails again

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Broken regulations affecting herbal products in the European Union (EU) and herbal practitioners in the UK are in the news again. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has just published its latest, damning ‘school report’ on the EU’s Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD). Coupled with the stalling of UK Government plans to bring in statutory regulation of herbalists, the future for herbalism remains manifestly unsettled.

 

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