Herbs/vitamins by prescription only!

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Friday, September 20, 2002 10:43 PM

Herbs/vitamins by prescription only!

 

 

http://dorway.com/nomoreherbs.txt

 

See also:

http://www.silentmajority.co.uk/index.html and

http://www.vitamins-for-all.org/english/default.html

 

Like your easy access to herbs and vitamins?

 

******** WITHOUT YOUR INVOLVEMENT...THAT WILL CEASE! ********

 

THIS SHOWS HOW " EUROPE " IS RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER THE WISHES OF THE

MAJORITY. 604 MILLION PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN THE LAST VOTE AGAINST THIS

EU DIRECTIVE. The USA will be next... as long as Americans remain

uninformed or disinterested.... and do NOTHING to stop it.

 

Visit http://www.garynull.com/issues/Codex/Index.htm for more info

 

DRUGS LAW IS BITTER PILL FOR HEALTH SHOPS

By Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph, 21. July 2002, UK

 

Representatives of Britain's 2,000 health shops have been told in

Brussels that there is now no chance of stopping an EU directive which

will close most of them down.

 

This is because it is part of an avalanche of EU legislation which is

being " fast-tracked " to give eastern European countries a chance to

comply with it before they join an enlarged Union.

 

There are several odd features about this " Herbal Medicines Products "

directive, for which pharmaceutical companies have been lobbying behind

the scenes for years.

 

Although it is a British initiative, championed by our Medicines Control

Agency, it seeks to apply to herbal remedies the principle of

continental law that things can only be allowed when they are

specifically authorised. This reverses the British tradition that

everything is allowed unless specifically prohibited.

 

Under the directive such herbal remedies as Hypericum, Rhodiola and

Echinacea, used by five million people in Britain for a wide range of

conditions, could only be sold if they had been through the MCA's

prohibitively expensive licensing procedures.

 

Thousands of safe herbal products will thus have to be removed from the

market, which is why many health shops will be forced to close.

 

What makes this even odder is that the MCA tried it on before, when in

1994 it proposed a statutory instrument which it claimed was necessary

to implement a 1965 Brussels directive, passed three years before

Britain's Medicines Act specifically exempted herbal medicines from

licensing requirements.

 

When the European Commission explained that this was not what the

directive intended, the MCA was told, after heated discussion in

Cabinet, to drop its proposal. Now seven years later, the MCA has got

its way, by successfully lobbying for an EU directive.

 

There are no health reasons for banning the 3,000 herbal preparations

currently on sale in Britain. Almost all adverse reactions linked to

herbal remedies (infinitely fewer than those due to synthetic drugs made

by pharmaceutical firms) are caused by preparations made up by Chinese

practitioners. These are specifically exempted from the directive.

 

 

 

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