Most people who use herbal medicine of any kind will be aware that amongst the many other areas of our daily life in which they dabble, the EU regulators have also been interesting themselves in herbal medicines. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, their desire to …
Alliance for Natural Health
Cut government red tape…
As many of you will probably know, the natural health industry (makers of herbal, homeopathic, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines, nutritional supplements etc) have been fighting a bruising and often unsuccessful battle with Brussels for some years over the the regulation of natural …
Things are Looking up in Europe
The long saga of the banning of many traditional herbs by Brussels (see this post, and this post and acres of material on line) has always smelt bad. The pharmaceutical industry have had it all so much their own way that there just had to have been some sort of collusion. Well, …
Herbs, Allotments, Chard and Asparagus
Few people can have failed to be aware of the impending, and now implemented, ban of the sale of hundreds of herbs used by herbalists, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and Ayurvedic practitioners, amongst many others. A workaround theoretically allows consumers to …
Proposed EU Herbal Regulation Built on a Fallacy
A lengthy article on the Alliance for Natural Health site urging us all to keep up the good fight against the risible (if they were not also so threatening) proposed EU restrictions on the sale of herbal medicines, includes an astonishing piece by Chris Dhaenens of the European …