New herbal medicine regulations are useless

BBC Business News 16 January 2010 with Nigel Cassidy. (the thought bubble was not part of the original!)

Pharmacist earnestly makes totally unfounded claims for echinacea and goldenseal. He makes unsubstantiated claims for treatment for menopausal hot flushes.

MHRA man evades the essential point -fraudulant labelling.

David Colquhoun points out that it is a disgrace that there is still no indication of whether treatments work.

The government and the MHRA bend over backwards to support producers, at the expense of consumers who get saddled with useless products.

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• dangerous
• herbal
• medicines
• regulation
• politics
• MHRA