The precarious status of herbal products in the EU

by! The Herbal Working Group of the CAM Stakeholder Group !
Presenter: Robert Verkerk PhD - Alliance for Natural Health International!
Also on behalf of:
! EHTPA - European Herbal & Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association!
EITAM - European Initiative for Traditional Asian Medicine!

Use of herbals in the EU!

Market reports consistently show herbal medicine most popular form of complementary medicine used in Europe !
Germany and France = market leaders!

Herbal medicines widely used across the EU e.g. 2009 UK MHRA* showed that over a quarter of the UK population had used a herbal remedy in the previous 2 years !

Consumers relying on the legislators to provide them with a full range of traditional herbal medicines. Failure to achieve this will force consumers to buy from unreliable internet sources or back-street traders".