UK Medicines Law - Mineral Use Restricted

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Hi all,

 

Taken from the RCHM website:

http://www.rchm.co.uk/news/rchm_news.html

 

In addition to dealing with the regulation of the profession, the

HMRWG report also included separate recommendations for reform of

section 12 (1) of the 1968 Medicines Act. This formed the basis for

a consultation document (MLX 299) published by the Medicines and

Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in March 2004: Proposals for

the reform of the regulation of unlicensed herbal remedies in the

United Kingdom made up to meet the needs of individual patients. The

consultation was completed in June 2004. It included the proposal

for restricted access by registered practitioners to a range of more

potent herbs, and that registered practitioners might have access to

industrially produced herbal medicines that might not be appropriate

either for a medicines license or for registration under the

European Herbal Medicinal Products Directive. This last proposal is

likely to be very important in order to ensure that Chinese

medicine 'patents' (so long as they meet the necessary quality and

safety standards) remain available. The consultation document also

considered the possibility of extending the current UK exemptions

(ie exemptions from the need to obtain a medicines license) to non-

plant as well as plant ingredients, under suitable quality and

safety conditions.

 

 

 

I understand from this that minerals such as Mu Li will be banned

under these regulations. Important formulas will be unviable to TCM

practitioners and our field limited. How can be practice like this?

 

Attilio