TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINES
January 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed a new directive on the authorisation of traditional herbal medicines, providing a simplified registration procedure for products in use for at least 30 years. Although the quality thresholds match those for standard medicines, the usual compulsory tests on safety and efficacy can be replaced by an assessment of information about their use in the past three decades, even if some data was gathered outside the European Union. The aim is to help small and medium-sized companies manufacturing herbal products, by ...
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