EU herbal product registration is quite "poor"

The chairman of the UK herbal forum warned that the European Union may find illegal herbal products on the shelves of pharmacies if these companies do not register their products under the traditional herbal medicines directive (thmpd) The directive became law in 2004, allowing the entire European Union Group to register their products in seven years by submitting dossiers supporting the claimed efficacy of herbal products Less than a year from the deadline of April 30, 2011, more and more people pay attention to the fact that many products may be legal under the restriction of law, but they are wrong under thmpd What will happen when April comes, Viner added, depends on the attitude of supervisors in each member state Until now, the UK has been the most active country in product registration MHRA has approved 69 products out of 152 applications None of them have been rejected Germany also has more registrations, but New Zealand and Slovenia are still relatively few Supplements or drugs? Although the enthusiasm is still low so far, thmpd has attracted more and more attention from herbal medicine suppliers, because their applications were rejected by EFSA in the 2006 nutrition and health care product regulation (nhcr) Thmpd registration shows that these facts are driven: there is no need to use scientific methods to prove the effectiveness of products in traditional herbal registration Viner pointed out that the UK herbal forum focuses on thmpd, while the European Herbal forum focuses on nhcr, and suggested that all members develop all regulatory schemes Members of the British herbal forum include the British Herbal Medicine Association, the British Council for nutrition, the European Association of traditional Chinese medicine physicians, the British Association of health food manufacturers and the British Patent Association.