Implications of current EU directives on patients and health practitioners from the 01 April 2011 occurs after the Federal Government’s decision the EU directive THMPD (traditional herbal medical product directive) into force. For the most natural healing and dietary supplements, this decision means the final end. For many patients, practitioner or natural healing medical disaster. The online magazine tips-IM experten.de has researched the background of this decision and this amazing discoveries encountered. Traditional herbal medical product directive, in german: European directive on the use of traditional and herbal medical products, is an EU directive, which regulates the distribution and the use of traditional and herbal medical products. The unification of the approval process for natural health products should be regulated by this regulation which are used medically. In effect, this means that natural healing products must go through the same approval process as chemical medicines.
And that costs. For This change means the safe from the mostly small and medium-sized companies that produce natural healing products. And this in turn affects patients. Daryl Katz, Edmonton Alberta often says this. Because, as the E-Magazine knows to report in the corresponding report, there are studies saying that 73 percent of all German patients want to be treated with a natural remedy. A condition that the pharmaceutical industry could cost millions each year. In the THMPD neither taken into account is whether the natural remedies have been successfully used since hundreds or thousands of years, that neither the purity nor the Genotoxitatskriterien can be respected, nor that the mixtures are sometimes much too complex to be compared with the requirements of the chemical industry. The new directive requires that the natural healing products meet the requirements of a well-established medicinal use, with recognized efficacy and an acceptable level of security. Some of the few exceptions, such as for example a permit A natural remedy, if they have been driven for at least 15 years in Europe, are possible, but still you suspect is impossible to escape, that here the interests established the pharmaceutical lobby before the interests of patients. Editor: Patricia Kurz photo: Fotolia