tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post7450429090348279272..comments2023-10-11T09:14:08.345+01:00Comments on Pyjamas in Bananas: Herbal medicines - because the government thinks you're stupidpjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06832177812057826894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-42003219731761201372011-04-02T20:08:20.021+01:002011-04-02T20:08:20.021+01:00So what they're basically saying is that they ...So what they're basically saying is that they can't even be bothered to spend some of their massive profits made from flogging useless herbs to do a few studies to show that these herbs aren't harmful and are manufactured to a minimum safety standard. Boo-fucking-hoo for them if they then can't sell them anymore.<br /><br />I loved this from the link:<br /><br /><i>'Robert Verkerk PhD, Executive and Scientific Director of [the Alliance for Natural Health International]...says “A major flaw in the legalisation is that, unlike pharmaceuticals, herbal products are made from biological sources, and as such do not react in the same way that conventional pharmaceuticals do<br />in a laboratory environment. Trying to push these ancient traditions into a European straitjacket based around synthetic drug manufacture is like to trying to push a square peg into a round hole.”'</i><br /><br />Well yes indeed, unlike 'conventional pharmaceuticals' these herbal products have no evidence for their use, in that sense they very much are like trying to 'push a square peg into a round hole' because medicines licensing isn't supposed to be dealing with approving drugs that have no evidence for their safety or efficacy, or indeed which have evidence that they aren't effective. Unfortunately that's the topsy turvy world we now live in!pjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832177812057826894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285737581949527996.post-84660629535659319602011-04-02T16:32:28.428+01:002011-04-02T16:32:28.428+01:00Quite.
However, the herbalists are up in arms (wi...Quite.<br /><br />However, the herbalists are up in arms (with the usual special pleading) that they have only had eight years to get their house in order and one group are intending to take eleventh-hour legal action against the Government.<br /><br />Apparently, they want the 'choice' (it's always about choice, never <em>informed</em> choice) of selling unregulated, unproven and potentially unsafe herbal products to their customers without interference from 'bureaucrats'.<br /><br />Read <a href="http://anh-europe.org/files/110216_ANH-Intl_Press_Release_Lockout_Trad_Herbs.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a> for further details.Zenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10419783839561343514noreply@blogger.com