EFSA Crackdown: Are You Taking ‘Illegal Drugs’ for Your Health, Without Knowing it?
With the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) slowly but surely clamping down on herbal medicine, before long our access to these traditional remedies — which have been used successfully to prevent and treat a wide range of ailments for centuries — will be completely blocked.
In April 2011, when the EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) is fully implemented by the EFSA, thousands of products distributed by specialist herbal suppliers will become increasingly difficult, if not illegal, to sell.